dataminne
Dataminne is a Swedish computing term that refers to the portion of a computer's memory that is used to store data, as distinct from the code that defines a program. In Swedish-language education and documentation, dataminne is commonly equated with data memory in computer architecture and with the data segment of a running process.
Its scope typically includes the regions of memory that hold initialized and uninitialized data (often called
In a process memory layout, the code, or text, resides in program memory, while the data memory
Historically, the concept reflects the von Neumann architecture idea of separating data and instructions, with many