Re: SRAM vs. FLASH RAM

Youngjin Roh (yroh@gamera.syr.edu)
Wed, 21 Feb 1996 14:49:34 -0500 (EST)

Thank you for your information.

The reason I bought a zoomer was IT's $99.95.
I had not use PDA, so I could not spend $500 bucks for unknown machine
(That's PDA market.. right? Nobody really knows before use it.)

My question.. is how fast NEWTON is ??? Twice of Zoomer?
I think you know very well, because you've used both machine..

Thank you.

On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Robert Housley wrote:

> My understanding is flash ram in non-volitile, SRAM is volitale but
> backed up by battery. Flash has a limited read-write capacity (but it is
> fairly high). Flash draws a higher amount of juice from the machine
> during read-writes. Flash is a little slower. If allowed by the
> machine, either can be used as memory (not sure about the Zoomer) or
> storage. This is my understanding from being on this list for about a
> year. I'm afraid I'm leaving the list soon, as I have just sold my
> Zoomer and bought a Newton MP 110 (used). I'm really happy with the MP 110.
>
> BTW- a messge for CASIO is anyone is reading. If you had supported the
> Zoomer with software and came out with a faster machine in a reasonable
> time period, I would have bought another of your Zoomer like products.
> However, with little software (in compairision to the Newton) and no new
> machine in the near future...well you get the picture. The sad part of
> this is since I'm happy with the Newton, they have lots of available
> software, and they have shown that they make periodic improvements
> (sometimes even upgradable) - I'll probabley never switch to another
> platform. A lost customer is may times lost forever. The Zoomer was a
> good pitch for its time, but you failed to follow through. Also, what do
> you think my impression is about CASIO committment in general? Will this
> influence my decision to by other CASIO products? If you are going to
> "test the concept," I wouldn't put your brand name on it. Just hope
> Apple can stay in business. :)
>
> The spell checker is on the fritz on my server - no joke.
>
> Rob
>

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