On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Nesse, Rustin wrote:
> Yes. Check out www.trgpro.com .
>
> If the Palm's batteries are dead, there's no current to
> be able to preserve the state of the Flash RAM, so your apps
> get hosed. Otherwise, the Flash ROM is preserved and your
> preferences are set back to the factory prefs.
> -Rus
Please don't confuse people with inaccurate terminology.
All Palm devices have regular, normal, vanilla RAM. This requires power
to maintain the memory. All data and 3rd party apps are stored there.
Some Palm devices have Flash RAM, in which the OS and builtin apps are
stored. It is possible to use a tool like TRGpro to write to this memory.
This memory does not require power to maintain itself.
The devices that don't have Flash RAM have a Mask ROM. This is permanant,
physically unalterable memory. No power is needed because there is a
physical imprint of the programs molded into the ROM die itself.
There is no such thing as "Flash ROM", afaik.
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