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: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:27:39 +0100 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ZweSWFfyfIvKdY7gsUyslAxxz4BXtpCWdyKzsVsuxz92mBZ+el Cancel-Lock: sha1:MS+v3A4SzLKzhPsyMB5kTNX6j5g= sha256:723tiLdwiF0+aICR1trwXOev+6OCosHWahLQbDkF0Tg= Content-Language: de-DE In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:146868 alt.comp.os.windows-10:182544 comp.editors:106689 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 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