Story of RAM
I'm RAM, working at a desktop
computer.Being so absent-minded , I
know nothing about where I came
from,and of which brand I am.My boss
cpu, generally regarded as brain of the
whole computer though, his brain
extremely small, and memory appears
even poorer than mine. He continually
asked me what it stored at some certain
addresses on some certain pages. All
the time I told him patiently.
However, within merely a second he can
forget all about it and asked once
again. Sometimes I lost patience and
complained,"My god, you've been so
bothersome, why not try to remember
something useful for yourself?" He
replied,"I'm so sorry, my fellow, but
I've got no idea. Working all day long
I nearly got a headache. So heavy the
burden it is."
I won't quarrel with him, he has a
small brain, simple thoughts. Although
he's my boss, every time he gets up he
has no idea of what to do, must fetch
BIOS in a hurry,"Hey, my dear fellow,
what we gonna do today?" BIOS
impatiently lists him the essential
tasks and goes to sleep. Then it's time
for cpu and me to get engaged.
Among all my colleagues, I like hard
disk the best. He has a large brain, a
particularly good memory. He speaks
slowly, but seldom makes any mistakes.
A depth-thought guy he is. So does cpu
think, but he's such a fool, frequently
forgot who the hard disk is. Every time
the computer boots and starts self-
inspection, my boss asked me,
"Hey, who's he?"
"ST!"I repeated.
Hard disk seems gloomy. I thought
technical work is no good for man as
melancholic as him, sooner or later
very possibly he might suffer agony of
schizophrenia. However, he considered
it as total nonsense.
I forget a lot after I go to sleep, but
I've never forgot any friend of mine.
One part on my body called CMOS, which
stays at the bottom of my heart, on it
embeded names of my friends. In my
opinion, there are something you should
remember forever, while no big problem
to forget all the others.
BIOS is a flaky guy, sleeping all the
time but forever the first to get up.
He let us start self inspection, boot
the computer and goes back to sleep. He
cannot sleep any longer if I turned off
BIOS Shadow. But when I saw him so
sleepy and exhausted, I got sympathized
with him. He doesn't care much of the
others, and nobody knows him. Only
after the love affair of ST did I start
to know him.
Long,long time ago, there once came a
laptop hard disk, very lovely she was,
to be honest I also liked her. But now
I've almost forgot all things except
she was lovely. That's why I'm lucky. I
can forget which was supposed to be
forgot,but poor ST kept in mind all.
After she left, ST appeared bizarre.
Every time his magneto resistive ran
over some space, we sensed an unusual
electric current.
"How's hard disk doing?" I asked CPU.
"Who's hard disk?"
So I recognized it's useless for any
further talking with him. BIOS shrugged
off,"That fool fell in love." I know
nothing about love since I have a poor
memory. It seems that someone and some
circumstances really occured to me in
my life, but I forgot them easily.
BIOS told me,"Memory has never been so
serious a case for you, since you can
always forget easily. But for some
memory embedded in one's life it must
have included suffering." I felt his
words hard to understand, but I
remembered BIOS has once been updated,
he was extremely painful, as he's gonna
die. Unlike them, I almost have no
memory for my own ...I got envious of
them, they have their memory but I
don't. From then on, I learned what the
term "melancholic" means, I embedded
the word on my CMOS.
Day by day it seemed hard disk
gradually stuck into a worse situation.
Till one day, cpu asked me,"What's the
next instruction?" I took a look and
got a shock, "format"
"What's that?" cpu seemed so exited,
what a fool.
I told him clearly. I didn't know why I
did so.
Hard disk hesitated for a long time, so
painfully, and finally gave a respond.
Track 0 bad，Disk unusable。
Power was cut off, for a long time I
stayed in darkness, kept waiting...
A month later hard disk came back.
Maybe it was after his last struggle he
had to face the most cruel result--low
format. His memory went totally blank,
just like a baby. We were sad about it,
but it's good to him, at least he won't
be painful any longer.
The laptop hard disk came to us again
to get back the lost data."Hi,ST" she
said, "You forgot me?" Hard disk didn't
say anything, low format seemed to hurt
him badly. After a while, he
replied,"I'm sorry, I don't think we
have ever met before..."
The laptop hard disk seemed very
depressed, I can sense her current in
tears, "I can't believe you're that
absent minded."
"Oh..." hard disk didn't give an
answer.
I was so sad. She still kept him in her
mind, but he forgot all about it, which
he most unwillingly forgot.I'm not sure
whether it is luck or pain. It was the
destiny made fun of them. I felt very
depressed.
At that time I sensed a strange current
from hard disk. Expression on his face
was complex, confused at first, than
gradually got exited, than grieved, at
last exultant..."IBM, you really come
back..."
Later BIOS told me he wasn't sleeping
actually. From that day hard disk
concealed some documents, he forsore a
possible consequence, so he helped
store some files
stealthily."Fortunately I'm DUAL BIOS,
although I've not stored much, but
quite enough to recall him days of the
past..." I think BIOS must have
suffered much pain while trying to
store them. When I asked him why he did
so, he said,"Because we are friends."
Yes, we are friends, friends forever...
附：原文
我是一條內存.
我在一臺臺式電腦裏工作，但是我記不
得我是從哪裏來的，是什麼牌子，因爲我健
忘。我的上司是cpu大哥，他是我們的老大
。都說他是電腦的腦子，可是我看他的腦子
實在是太小了，比我還要健忘。每天他總是
不停的問我，某某頁某某地址存的是什麼？
我總是不厭其煩的告訴他，可是不出一秒鐘
他又忘記了，又要問一遍，一次我說大哥你
煩不煩，你就不能記住點有用的東西？他說
“內存兄弟，我有苦衷啊，每天都在不停地
做題，頭暈眼花的，我也難啊。”
其實我不願意跟他計較，因爲他腦子小
，思維也很簡單。雖然說他是我的上司，可
是每次睡覺醒來，他連要幹什麼都不記得了
，總是急急忙忙地找BIOS兄弟，“嘿，哥們
，今天干什麼來着”。bios總是很不耐煩地
把每天必做的工作說一遍，然後就去睡覺了
。接下來就輪到我和C哥瞎忙了。
在機箱裏的兄弟中，我最喜歡硬盤。他
腦子大，記得東西多，而且記得牢。他說話
的速度很慢，而且很少說錯，這說明他很
有深度，我這麼感覺。CPU也這麼想，不過
他很笨，每次都忘了硬盤是誰。開機自檢的
時候總要問∶“嘿，那傢伙是誰？”
“ST！”我總要重複一遍。
硬盤很喜歡憂鬱，我覺得象他這樣憂鬱
的人不適合做技術活，遲早會精神分裂的，
但是他不信。
其實睡着的時候我總是把幾乎所有的東
西都忘記掉，但是我從來都不會忘記朋友。
有一塊地方叫做CMOS，那是我記憶的最深處
，保存着硬盤、光驅的名字。有些東西應該
很快忘掉，而有些東西應該永遠記得。我在
夢中總是這麼想着。
BIOS是一個很奇怪的傢伙，他老是睡覺
，但是卻總是第一個醒過來。讓我們自檢，
啓動，然後接着睡覺。我知道如果我在CMO
S裏頭把BIOS Shadow選項去掉，他就睡不成
了，
但是看着他暈暈乎乎的樣子，也就不忍心這
麼做了。他對人總是愛搭不理，沒有什麼人
瞭解他。但是這次硬盤戀愛的事，卻使我重
新認識了他。
那是很久以前的事了，機箱裏似乎來過
一塊筆記本硬盤，很可愛，說實話我也喜歡
她。不過現在除了記得他可愛，別的都忘記
了。這就是我比硬盤幸運的地方，我把所有
應該忘記的都忘記了，但是他卻什麼都記得
。
自從筆記本硬盤走了之後，硬盤就變得
很不正常。每次他的磁頭經過一些地方的時
候，我們都能感覺到電流很不正常。
“硬盤這是怎麼了？”我問CPU。
“誰是硬盤？”
我就知道和CPU沒有辦法交流，倒是bi
os沒好氣地說∶“那個傻瓜戀愛了”。我不
知道什麼是戀愛，因爲我記不住東西，似乎
有一些人或者事在我生命中留下過痕跡，但
是我都輕率地把他們忘記了。
BIOS對我說∶“對你來說記憶太容易了
，所以你遺忘得更快，生命中能夠永刻的記
憶都帶着痛楚。”我不懂，但是我知道BIO
S曾經被刷寫過，那時他很痛，象要死了一
樣。我的記憶是輕浮的，不象他們……我很
羨慕他們，因爲他們擁有回憶，而我們有，
從此我也學會了憂鬱，因爲我在CMOS裏面寫
下了“憂鬱”兩個字。
硬盤一天比一天不對勁，終於有一天，
CPU對問說∶“下條指令是什麼來着？” 我
一看，嚇了一跳∶“format”
“是什麼？”CPU很興奮，這個沒腦子
的傢伙。
我還是告訴了他。我不知爲什麼這麼
做。
硬盤猶豫了很久，終於說了一句 Tra
ck 0 bad，Disk unusable。
電停了，很久很久，我在黑暗中數着時
鍾……
一個月後硬盤迴來了，也許最後的掙扎
也沒有使他擺殘酷的命運，他被低格了。他
什麼也不記得了，如同一個嬰兒，我們很難
過，但是這未必不是一件好事，他以後不用
痛苦了。
爲了恢復數據，筆記本硬盤迴來了。“
Hi，ST”，她說，“你不認識我了？”硬盤
沒有說話，似乎低格對他的傷害很大。過了
一會，他說∶“對不起，好象我們沒有見過
吧……”。
筆記本硬盤顯得很傷心，我能感覺到她
帶淚的電流。“想不到連你也這麼健忘”。
“哦……”。硬盤沒有回答。
我很難過，筆記本硬盤的心裏依然記
着他，他卻把一切都忘了，而那正是他最不
希望忘卻的。究竟是幸運，還是痛苦，我說
不上來，只是覺得造化弄人，有一種淡淡
的悲涼。
這時從BIOS傳來一陣奇怪的電流，我感
覺到硬盤的表情在變化，由漠然到興奮，由
興奮到哀傷，由哀傷到狂喜……“IBM，你
回來了……”。
……
後來BIOS對我說，其實他並沒有睡覺，
自從硬盤把那些文件藏起來以後，他就到會
有這樣的結局，於是偷偷地把其中一些文件
放到了備份裏。“幸好我是DUAL BIOS，雖
然藏得不多，還足夠讓他想起來……”。
我想BIOS保存這些東西的時候一定很疼，當
我問他“爲什麼這麼做”時，BIOS輕描淡寫
的說∶“呵呵，我們是朋友嘛”。
嗯，朋友，永遠的朋友……