Erik N Basilier wrote: > > I am very familiar with the internals of computers, more than enough to > know that these behaviors can be expected unless one pointedly designs > to eliminate them, and that *can* be done. There is no fundamental
One factor to consider here is that the flash memory has a limited write cycle life time, typically in the range of 100,000 to 1,000,000 cycles. That means that you don't want to write every change back immediately. > reasons that any machine that contains a computer needs to behave like a > PC. I do not mean to criticize the design of the K3, particularly since > we know that there are more important goals for the designers. My > objective was just to find out whether the behavior of my K3 was > consistent with the K3 design. In general, I find the K3 to be much more > free from those "computerish" characteristics than a PC is, and that is > one reason I am using a K3 and not a radio that depends on a PC to > function. -- David Woolley "The Elecraft list is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Elecraft products and more general topics related ham radio" List Guidelines <http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm> ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
