1 Oct
2007
1 Oct
'07
6:31 a.m.
Over on comp.terminals someone wrote this about the VT100:
"The power-on operation does a "destructive" read of the
ROM-based firmware. After so many power-ups, the ROM becomes
unreadable. This was a design issue at the time - the technology
to fix it did not evolve until the VT200 series."
Is this true? I've never heard of a ROM being damaged by reading it a
lot.
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