Disasters and Recovery

From: Doug <doug_at_blinkenlights.com>
Date: Sun Jan 17 23:08:54 1999

On 18 Jan 1999, Eric Smith wrote:

> It works because an EPROM is a bunch of tiny little capacitors (storing
> electrons on the floating gates), and the charge gradually leaks off of them.
> Just like bits in a DRAM, but much more slowly.

I can believe that, but that means the graph is sigmoidal rather than
exponential. What about a mask-programmed PROM, then?

-- Doug
Received on Sun Jan 17 1999 - 23:08:54 GMT

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