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From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: 10,000 educational single board computers sold on the first day!
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Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> It's not flash. It's ferro-RAM. You can write to it (at the byte
> level) as much as you want. Knock yourself out :-)

The Value Line parts we're discussing use flash, but with the capability
of writing single bytes (just not erasing them, i.e. once you flip the
0's in a page to 1's, they are permanently 1's until you erase the whole
page).