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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 2025-02-22 00:35:   
      
   > On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:12:09 +0100, Arno Welzel wrote:   
   >   
   >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 2025-02-18 22:55:   
   >>   
   >>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:56:41 +0100, Arno Welzel wrote:   
   >> [...]   
   >>>> And core memory is not *intended* to be non volatile storage ...   
   >>>   
   >>> It did work that way, you know. By design.   
   >>   
   >> Which is irrelevant for what I said.   
   >   
   > You said it wasn’t intended to be non-volatile. But it was.   
      
   No, it wasn't. This was just the side-effect of using magnetic cores. If   
   any other technology would have been as cheap and fast as core memory,   
   it would have been used.   
      
   As soon as *non-volatile* integrated circuits became cheaper, they   
   replaced core memory within a few years, because the proporty "non   
   volatile" was not the important thing. Instead having a lot of cheap RAM   
   was much more important - also when core memory was invented.   
      
      
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