On 12/16/2018 8:00 PM, allison via cctech wrote:
In the end, current generation CMOS ram is the easy
out, battery is
small, cost is small,? and
produces much less of the heat that is killer to systems.?? The only
reason to do that is core
cost big if you can find it for your machine.? I can cost more if you
want to run an OS that
needs a fair amount of it.? AC as well as it can help heat the room and
also power as in
makes the meter spin.
So much lathering and speculation about what and how.? When the point is
totally missed.
Allison
What programs or operating sytems require non volatile core?
Did DEC have any BOOTSTRAP programs in prom for the 8?
A small prom and regular slow mos memory may be the solution.
Ben.