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What is the Difference between secondary memory and auxiliary memory?

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secondary memory is actually the permanent memory/the backing storage of the computer. it is of two types:
sequential access
direct access
auxiliary memory is the computer's internal/temporary memory. it is also of two types:
random access memory (RAM)
read only memory (ROM)
the difference between secondary memory and auxiliary memory is that:-
both are same i.e both performs the same operations
thanks.

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