Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!mintaka!dcw From: dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: The Apple IIf Message-ID: <1990Feb23.205202.12660@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 23 Feb 90 20:52:02 GMT References: <900222.14492460.054933@UWEC.CP6> <1990Feb23.190539.18534@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu Organization: MIT Spoken Language Systems Group Lines: 17 In article <1990Feb23.190539.18534@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs122aw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Alfter) writes: >EEPROMs have several >points in their favor: they don't require continuous power like SRAMs, and >they can be erased electrically, instead of by using ultraviolet radiation as >with ordinary EPROMs. > They have a big lose - they have a small finite lifetime. About 100-200 burnings. They are also quite slow. Much slower than RAMs or ROMs. The only thing you want in EEPROM are small strings that won't change very often (like, uh, um, the name of a laserwriter? Yeah!). -- Dave Whitney dcw@sun-bear.lcs.mit.edu ...!mit-eddie!sun-bear!dcw dcw@athena.mit.edu My employer pays me well. This, however, does not mean he agrees with me. I wrote Z-Link & BinSCII. Send me bug reports. I use a //GS. Send me Tech Info.