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You seem to be mixing up volatile memory and permanent storage quite a bit in the first few paragraphs.
That point of the Op Ed is to draw a distinction between sequential storage and random access and the permanent vs temp storage is irrelevant to that. A flash drive is considered permanent and nonvotile. NVRAM is just as random access as "RAM" Read only memory is often where the instruction set is stored and it is a random access even though the R in ROM doesn't stand for random.
I've never heard of anyone going into the bios to find out how much RAM they have before installing a program.
Well the "program" could be the operating system and there wouldn't be anywhere else to look.
You suddenly switch to talking about a stack data structure, which is a software concept, so now you're not talking about hardware any more.
So you think storage has to be hardware?!? What about a push down stack in a router? They don't exist or is that software?
Then why did you make it up? What was the purpose?
I'm getting blowback from a lot of people about the definitions that I use. I use them to clear the air and not to create confusion. Determinism is meant to create confusion. There is no other reason for continuing this nonsense. The clockwork universe model died when relativity took over but according to the dogma, it is alive and well. Religion isn't always the most trustworthily run organization and scientism must have some ulterior motive up its sleeve. Otherwise it wouldn't play so fast and loose with the facts.
There's nothing here!