Rumor has it that Bob Rosenbloom may have mentioned these words:
--- Roger MercMerchbergererzmerchacctalkelow.com>
wrote:
I think the more compelling problems with
FRAMFRAMe
to do with
availability and 3.3V buffering and such.
GwarGwarshhen why not just order the 5V version?
UnfoUnforche 1MbitMbitts
are 3.3V only, but the 256 & 64KbitKbitts (the FM
1808 & FM1608
respectively) have 5V versions in both 120ns &ns0ns
nsspeeds.
The 5 volt parts have a write cycle limitation that's
not there with the 3.3 volt parts.
Ah, yes - 10 *billion* writes. Dang. ;-)
I do see where replacing core with this stuff could be affected, as core
*needs* to be rewritten every read (reads are destructive, aren't they?) ...
... but you know what? This looks like some *schweet* stuff to use to
rebuild a few of my old Tandy Model 100/200/102 computers with. -0- battery
drain to keep the memory. It looks to be about the same amount of power
consumption whilst active as the existing low-power static RAM installed,
but you wouldn't have to worry as much about keeping the internal nicad
charged (for BBSRAM).
Heck, if one hacked in a switchable /WE line to the ROMs & switched this
thru, one could possibly patch/rewrite the ROMS on the fly, too! ;-)
Things that make you go "Hummmmm"...
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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zmerch at
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