Beware of April 1!

Andres Valloud sqrmax at cvtci.com.ar
Wed Mar 17 02:18:47 UTC 1999


Hi.

> I particularly liked BYTE magazine's product announcement of Write Only
> Memory (WOM).  They even got requests for help in locating the company that
> produces it as no one could be reached using the contact information.  For a
> while I thought it might be like some kind of new EPROM--then read it again
> and started laughing.

How about WORN recordable media? Like, Write Once Read Never!

Now seriously, WOM memory... what use could it have? Oh yes, compression
techniques. You just write and write and write... the chip seems to eat it all
and you don't know when it can't accept more since it has no output at all!
Bwaahhahahahahahha! Now that's some lossy compression!

Andres.





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