Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: New Shuttle Computers
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.065744.20582@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2352@ksr.com> <1991Mar4.202334.22118@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <1991Mar5.013344.7971@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1991 06:57:44 GMT

In article <1991Mar5.013344.7971@umiami.ir.miami.edu> jdeitch@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Jonathan Deitch) writes:
>Static RAM memory, I believe, is non volatile memory.

No.  "Static" and "dynamic" refer to irrelevant details of the memory
technology; both are volatile unless battery backup or something similar
is done.  (Static memory *is* more amenable to battery backup.)
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