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| Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Arno Welzel |
| Re: What is an animal or an SSD drive? ( |
| 25 Feb 25 20:28:38 |
XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10 From: ldo@nz.invalid On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:27:39 +0100, Arno Welzel wrote: > 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. It was non-volatile. That is a matter of indisputable fact. > As soon as *non-volatile* integrated circuits became cheaper, they > replaced core memory within a few years ... Why wait for *non-volatile* ones? If the non-volatility was not important, the replacement would have happened sooner. --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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