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From: walter@hpsadle.HP.COM (Walter Coole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Soldered-in ROMs: 20/20 hindsight
Message-ID: <760005@hpsadle.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Mar 91 19:51:15 GMT
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Organization: HP Signal Analysis Division - Rohnert Park, CA
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I wasn't involved in this product, but I would think that the main
limitation with using EEPROMs or EPROMs was size.  For a given
technology and die size, MAX(ROM) ~ 4xMAX(EPROM) ~ 16xMAX(EEPROM).  I
think that most people are be more satisfied (actual needs filled)
than they would be with an easily upgraded machine with 1/16 the
functions.

Not an official statement by Hewlett Packard.