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From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com
On 13.02.2025 23:15, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:59:35 +0100, Arno Welzel wrote:
>>
>> Anyway - the memory was "RAM" and not "mass storage".
>
> Neither term was used back then.
Well, this is not exactly reflecting the situation "back then".
(And I also don't think we should focus on terms[*] if we discuss
technology.)
If you read old books about storage technology you find that these
characteristics are described; e.g. the direct addressing property
(RAM, random access memory), or the property to store practically
unlimited amounts of information (mass storage). There were also
other properties of storage memory described and all storage types
with their properties were seen in a much wider and differentiated
context.
> Arno Welzel previously wrote:
>>
>> Correct. But core memory is not intended as *persistent* memory, even
>> when it can be used this way.
There's no "intention"; persistence is just a _property_ of various
storage technologies (including ferrite-core memory).
Janis
[*] Terms like the shortcut "RAM" (for example) is not the essential
thing. It's the storages' properties; "back then" they considered
these properties less on a buzz-word-abbreviated-marketing-level but
more based on concrete physical properties. That's what I perceived
(hereabouts) and what can be read in old books[**] about it. (YMMV.)
[**] For the interested people, see for example:
Karl Steinbuch, "Taschenbuch der Nachrichtenverarbeitung", 2. Auflage,
Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, 1967 - on pages 475-603.
On 13.02.2025 23:15, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> I certainly didn’t use them in this context.
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