Serious question on thumb drives (was Re: Maybe a deal on flash drives)

[Karl Larsen]

Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 08:54 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Our problem is we keep calling this technology some old name. This 
>> memory devise is called "Flash Memeory". 
>>     
>
> "Flash RAM" *was* RAM that could be used very rapidly, an awful lot
> faster than other types, at the time.  That's an ancient computing term.
>
> These days we see the term "flash drives" which are a memory device that
> you plug in somewhere, typically USB, and you can write to it in a
> flash, compared to other types of drives.
>
> I think calling something a "USB Flash Drive" is fairly comprehensible,
> but simply referring to one as "flash memory" is a bit incoherent.
>
>   
    Flash Memory goes into USB Flash Drives and also into the tiny sim 
stick I have in my Cell Phone. It may also be in other devices so Flash 
Memory is the generic stuff to a lot of things.



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