Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.editors Subject: Re: What is an animal or an SSD drive? (Was: blah, blah, blah) Android editors Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:49:06 +0100 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net g8r+1r4yrI50K58j9cNyCwWZl5YODkFd0cvZlalWKBfDyBzzMf Cancel-Lock: sha1:VeDAfSxwL70jbmXwNmHnr82sHl8= sha256:lAs2TBg0T+s4RCUF04XkiXYUwHWBahHMz5hwnlcl9mw= Content-Language: de-DE In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:146874 alt.comp.os.windows-10:182561 comp.editors:106693 Arno Welzel, 2025-02-25 18:27: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 2025-02-22 00:35: > >> On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:12:09 +0100, Arno Welzel wrote: >> >>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 2025-02-18 22:55: >>> >>>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:56:41 +0100, Arno Welzel wrote: >>> [...] >>>>> And core memory is not *intended* to be non volatile storage ... >>>> >>>> It did work that way, you know. By design. >>> >>> Which is irrelevant for what I said. >> >> You said it wasn’t intended to be non-volatile. But it was. > > No, it wasn't. This was just the side-effect of using magnetic cores. If > any other technology would have been as cheap and fast as core memory, > it would have been used. > > As soon as *non-volatile* integrated circuits became cheaper, they ... *volatile* of course ... > replaced core memory within a few years, because the proporty "non > volatile" was not the important thing. Instead having a lot of cheap RAM > was much more important - also when core memory was invented. -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de