17 Jan
1999
17 Jan
'99
3:08 p.m.
On 18 Jan 1999, Eric Smith wrote:
It works because an EPROM is a bunch of tiny little
capacitors (storing
electrons on the floating gates), and the charge gradually leaks off of them.
Just like bits in a DRAM, but much more slowly.
I can believe that, but that means the graph is sigmoidal rather than
exponential. What about a mask-programmed PROM, then?
-- Doug