[Coco] 2764 EPROM vs 2864 EEPROM

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 28 September 2013 21:00:03 Chris Osborn did opine:

> On Sep 28, 2013, at 5:09 PM, tonym wrote:
> > The market, well, how many commercial businesses actually use Linux
> > for tasks like burning EPROMs, etc...? Also, nowadays, how many
> > people actually NEED to burn EPROMs?
> 
> The burners do more than EPROMs though. They do lots of different flash
> chips and some can do some of the microcontrollers. Things that are
> used by hobbyists. And it's really not about a market, since as you
> said, they want free and open. I would expect some hacker to reverse
> engineer a burner and cobble together some software for their own use,
> and then share it. It's also something I would expect one of the
> ultra-stubborn purist Linux enthusiasts to do that refuses to do
> anything on Windoze.
 
Did I hear someone calling my name?  :)


Cheers, Gene
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