Re: re: Blue Sky

> There was talk around here earlier about designing and making custom chips
> for machine control but that kind of chip making is far different from
> "burning a memory chip." The chip burn that I referred to is the process
> of loading a bunch of memory into an already manufactured read only memory
> (ROM). These ROM chips are fairly common and easily customized for devices
> like this. Most of the handheld and portable devices made today use some
> form of ROM to hold their operating system. Many use erasable programmable
> read only memory (EPROM) so that the end user can reconfigure parts of the
> device control on the fly.

With CDROM drives as cheap as they are, and CD's costing under a buck
to produce in quanitity, there is little to recommend the use of an
expensive rom chip that has to be installed inside the computer's
case - provided that the CD includes good upgrade/downgrade/restore scripts.

Chris

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