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- From: tal@netcom.com (Tal Dayan)
- Subject: Re: S3: Shall I get 1M RAM or 2M FLASH?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.064353.27253@netcom.com>
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- References: <1993Jan26.135023.8152@city.cs> <1k6pk6INNiu0@emmental.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:43:53 GMT
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- In article <1k6pk6INNiu0@emmental.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, phudl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr S J Liddicott) writes:
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- > With FLASH, you wan't be able to have more than 1MEG permanantly stored
- > anyway, because you have to leave yourself with enough slack.
- > With RAM you won't have the risk of misjudging your slack. FLASH is
- > only good for a certain (largish) number of formats anyway.
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- The problem is not in the Flash technology but with the naive file
- system implemented by Psion. From a company that made such a great
- product (S3, hardware and software) I would expect to have a real
- Flash management software with on-line compression and
- unused area recovery.
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- Tal
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