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From: zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Soldered-in ROMs: 20/20 hindsight
Keywords: ROM EEPROM
Message-ID: <1750@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 91 00:01:59 GMT
Organization: MADNIX, operated by: ARP Software  Madison WI
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Problem: HP wants to fix bugs in their ROMs, but didn't allow any
way to replace them. Then they complain when people want the new
version.
 
Solution: They should have used EEPROMs. Yes, it would have cost
more, but so does throwing out a lot of calculators because they
can't change the ROMs. This is not meant as a criticism of HP--
20/20 hindsight, and all that. But now that it's happened,
there's no excuse for HP, or anyone else, to make the same
mistake again.
 
(Murphy's law: Every ROM has a bug in it, somewhere).
 
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