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To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (27051)	11/30/2004 3:55:53 AM
From: Bruno Cipolla	Respond to of 60323

NOR is more like a nonvolatile RAM, code is executed in-place. Most old cell phones used NOR. NAND is like disk, Block access, slower than NOR. Most portable and non portable appliances are switching to a PC-like architecture, where the O.S. and code are booted from disk (NAND) into RAM and then executed. (Some nor may be useful too) The amount of "disk" needed will increase by orders of magnitude, to store all of that multimedia stuff we need. As a comparison, my first PC had 64 KB of RAM and 800KB of disk my latest PC (video-editing machine) has 1GB of RAM and (oh my god!) a little less than 1 TB of Disk..... a typical ram to disk ratio today is 50-100. p.s. 1TB is One Terabyte, 1024 Gigabytes... Eventually it might all become no-moving-parts storage....