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To: tom pope who wrote (375)	3/21/1998 3:03:00 PM
From: Marc Phelan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 923

Tom, But where OROM is likely to make the biggest difference to you and me is in the handheld and laptop computer markets, where growth has been slowed in part by the high cost and high power consumption of memory-storage devices. Handheld computers like the PalmPilot use MROM or flash memory, which run in the dollars-per-megabyte price range, while OROM will cost approximately two cents per megabyte. And the weight and power consumption of laptops can be reduced by anywhere from 20 percent to 80 percent by transferring operating-system and interface data from the hard drive, where it comprises nearly 40 percent of the data stored on the drive, to OROM cards. Wow....That is impressive. I wonder if Ioptics can deliever? Marc