Invisible wrote:
> Almost everything these days seems to hold software in some sort of 
> flash RAM rather than actual ROM now. (What does that say about firmware 
> reliability?)

It says that FLASH, being mass-produced, is cheaper than ROMs that you have 
to mask on a per-device basis.

Even back in the days of VT100 terminals and TRS-80's, EPROMs were used 
instead of ROMs because it was cheaper, and nobody ever really expected to 
patch the fonts on a VT100 terminal.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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