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Extended Data Out Dynamic Random Access Memory (EDO DRAM) is faster than conventional DRAM, because EDO DRAM can start fetching the next block of memory at the same time that it sends the previous block to the CPU. With EDO, a microprocessor is able to output an address and then change to another address without waiting for the data to come back, be absorbed and then read by the microprocessor, as FPM DRAM requires.

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