Re: Possible new hardware project

["John King" <joki@eskimo.com>]

Isn't flash ram pretty slow though, compared to static ram? Least it is on
the Newton. Maybe it's getting faster now.

Still think it is a neat idea though.


Terence J. Boldt <apple2@cgocable.net> wrote in message
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> In article <38D99CFD.F6C97EC8@dcnet2000.com>, Phoenyx
> <quazar@dcnet2000.com> wrote:
> >Something like this might be possible with the mentioned Flash
> >ram. I have a laptop which supports a pcmcia Flash ram card of
> >either 4mb or 10mb. I never found out if there were larger ones.
>
> Flash-RAM in individual chips is quite cheap.  Believe it or
> not, the static RAM is over double the price of the Flash-RAM.
> I could make the drive read-only but include a utility to burn a
> disk image to Flash-RAM directly on the Apple II.  I just
> thought it would be cool to have a permanent writeable drive
> that ran as fast as a RAM drive.
>
>
>
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> Terence J. Boldt
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