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human
What dose the R [Random] in RAM [Randomly Accessible Memory] mean?

Dose it mean, that it can be accesed at any [Random] moment, or that the any [Random] part can be accesed?

Couldn't it have been AM [Accessible Memory] or FAM [Freely Accessible Memory]? What was the reason for the *"Random"* choice.
gpt
It means you can read any memory location at any time without passing through other memory locations on the way there. 

A record, for example, would be completely non-random access memory. To access the last track on a record (using the designated needle landing zone) you need to play all the previous tracks. A hard drive is also non-random - the read armatures needs to physically move to the location to be read, and depending on its prior position this may occur quickly or slowly.

The random is simply that if you were to access locations based on a random number generator the access time would not suffer - you need no prior knowledge of the information to be accessed to get optimal seek times.