NVRAM
Noun
Meaning
NVRAM (countable and uncountable, plural NVRAMs)
(electronics) Non-volatile random access memory.
Examples
Access restrictions can be configured on each NVRAM space to prevent the contents from being accessed or modified, up to the point of requiring full hardware reset to clear a locked NVRAM space.
And so, especially on our physical product, we do a lot of write caching, and we have NVRAM cards built into our hardware.
On a network with many machines it may take several tries before a free address is found, so for performance purposes the successful address is "written down" in NVRAM and used as the default address in the future.
Some later Palms use NVRAM or microdrive for storage.
NVRAM is used in newer Macs.