[Color Computer] [Coco] New Magnetic memory

[Phill Harvey-Smith]

James Diffendaffer wrote:
>> That reminds me of Dennis' bubble memory board.  Anyone still has one
>> of them?
>>
> http://news.com.com/Freescale+goes+to+market+with+magnetic+memory/2100-1006_3-6092242.html
>> -Benoit
> 
> The technology is very different.  Bubble was slow and expensive and
> this is as fast as regular RAM (or so they claim).  With any luck this
> will mean the eventual end of flash memory for all but a few
> applications.  No more funky programming routines to erase or write,
> just write to it like RAM.

Though if you only need up to 32K, there's FERAM from Ramtron, which 
acts like standard SRAM, and has a similar interface and pinout, but 
like this stuff retains it's contents when the power is off.

That I think is only 70ns RAM, so the freescale stuff is faster and denser.

> BTW, they have been talking about this technology for a while.  Nice
> to see it's finally going to be available.
> 
> Hmmmm... it sounds like the beginning of a good CoCo project. ;)

That would be cool :)

Phill.

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