10 Apr
2015
10 Apr
'15
11:07 p.m.
On 2015-Apr-10, at 10:15 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
Having in common their era of popularity makes them similar to miniskirts and Andy
Warhol.
Suggesting they are similar just contributes to the confusion about them.
They get confused because of the use of the word core in both, and they're of the same
era, with the result that core rope is misunderstood to be just some minor variation on
core RAM, for example as seems to have happened just now in the OP's thread in another
forum, so I made the point of clarifying their distinction.
Core RAM and
"core rope" ROM sure are often confused, but technically I would disagree that
they are similar.
They have about as much in common with each other as they do with the power transformer
in the other corner of the chassis of whatever equipment they are in, that is to say what
they have in common is using electro-magnetics and having a magnetic core.
You are nitpicking.
In the field of vintage memory systems, for lack of a better term,
core and rope are far more closely related than core and any other
type of memory, or rope and any other type of memory.