fmgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Filip M Gieszczykiewicz) (07/29/90)
Greetings. A few years back I read somewhere (in an "industrial" catalog) that core (that's right, core!) was still a hot item for certain purposes. They quoted a firm that was using core-on- a-chip to save the registers and stack of a mainframe in case the power went off.... was that before they invented EEROM's? What are the advantages? I know that core is better suited for space-projects than MOS or CMOS but they were using it in a earth-based model??? Also, they said that they could fit a lot of core in a plastic chip package and that the access times were comparable with EPROM and/or EEROM - is that true? And last, I have several 128KWORD core boards that I pulled from a dying Honywell mainframe... can use it with a PC? (just for the hell of it, by the way :-) Take care and I will summarize in a while. Thank you. -- _______________________________________________________________________________ "The Force will be with you, always." It _is_ with me and has been for 10 years Filip Gieszczykiewicz "A man without a dream is like a fish without water." FMGST@PITTVMS or fmgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu "My ideas. ALL MINE!!"