>Sorry, I got into the habit of calling it Flash...I believe others
>had referred to it as such awhile back (which is why I don't know
>why some people had called it that, besides getting the Flash RAM and
Dang it Brian, now I'm all befuddled. It became an annoying habit to call
ALL Palm ram Flash RAM.
Hereforward, when mentioning this stuff in passing, everyone should just
use these three terms:
RAM: Needs battery current to retain data
Flash: (not included in some units) Doesn't need current to retain data:
keeps a static image of the pims and databases loaded into it.
ROM: Static hardware data.
The confusion, I think, arises from the capability of computers and some
other electronic devices to have software executable "ROM" updates. People
begin to get these confused with the capability to update Flash memory, and
thus, it becomes Flash ROM to us. Then someone comes along talking about
Flash RAM, and bingo, in the back of your mind you start calling both the
RAM
and ROM Flash.
No one wants a 2 dollar Psych lecture, however... =)
-Rus
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