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From: fmgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Filip M Gieszczykiewicz)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Core news.
Message-ID: <26315@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 29 Jul 90 05:12:59 GMT
Reply-To: fmgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
Organization: The Last Jedi
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	Greetings. A few years back I read somewhere (in an "industrial"
	catalog) that core (that's right, core!) was still a hot item
	for certain purposes. They quoted a firm that was using core-on-
	a-chip to save the registers and stack of a mainframe in case
	the power went off.... was that before they invented EEROM's?

	What are the advantages? I know that core is better suited
	for space-projects than MOS or CMOS but they were using it
	in a earth-based model???

	Also, they said that they could fit a lot of core in a plastic
	chip package and that the access times were comparable with
	EPROM and/or EEROM - is that true?

	And last, I have several 128KWORD core boards that I pulled
	from a dying Honywell mainframe... can use it with a PC?
	(just for the hell of it, by the way :-)


	Take care and I will summarize in a while. Thank you.
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