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To: Bruno Cipolla who wrote (27230)	1/8/2005 7:09:59 AM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

Bruno, I wasn't sure if this new U3 technology... ...used a combination of NAND and SRAM, for example, of if you needed to "dirty" the PC. It has some relevance as most anti-virus software balks at certain requests, especially foreign software that is attempted to be downloaded. I read on the M-Systems site that they have done very well with their disk-on-chip USB drives that they custom manufacture for companies like Dell. The drives are essentially freebies that are bundled with new PC's. Of course they are in place of the floppy drive bay. Aus

To: Bruno Cipolla who wrote (27230)	1/8/2005 12:44:30 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Of course you shouldn't be supposed to install the software on the PC, it should be executable without "dirtying" the PC. By dirtying a PC do you mean after you turn off the power all traces of the software in a PC's memory are gone? If you can't execute code stored in NAND memory in place, then you have to load code stored in NAND into a PC's memory, either cache or dynamic RAM, to execute the code. A nit picker would say you are temporarily dirtying a PC.