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To: Gary Spiers who wrote (7912)	10/31/1999 9:09:00 AM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (2) of 60323

Gary and Craig, The question I posed originally asked why a handheld PC uses volatile memory for RAM, but flash memory for longterm storage. I left on vacation this summer only to find my RAM memory was erased (and along with it all the software I had loaded). It seemed to make sense to make RAM less volatile (that is, use flash memory) or to have an automatic back up of RAM to flash memory to avoid this problem. Based on the replies I have received it is clear to me that flash is too expensive and too slow to be used in place of DRAM in the application I mentioned. I believe that flash memory and DRAM/SDRAM will coexist peacefully for at least a few more years. It would be silly to believe that flash will not be replaced at some time in the future. Ausdauer SanDisk...See the Big Picture

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