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XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10 From: usenet@arnowelzel.de Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 2025-02-13 23:15: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:59:35 +0100, Arno Welzel wrote: > >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 2025-02-11 02:00: >> >>> On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 08:47:39 +0100, Arno Welzel wrote: >>> >>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 2025-02-09 00:35: >>>> >>>>> So you never used core memory. >>>> >>>> Correct. But core memory is not intended as *persistent* memory, even >>>> when it can be used this way. >>> >>> It was indeed regularly used that way. Consider that, on machines from >>> the core memory era ... >> >> Anyway - the memory was "RAM" and not "mass storage". > > Neither term was used back then. I certainly didn’t use them in this > context. It does not matter, if you use that term. I talk about the real world usage. And core memory is not *intended* to be non volatile storage, even if it is technically possible to keep information without powering the memory. -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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