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To: Openurmind
It doesn't help PCs in most cases. The memory that holds the bootloader and BIOS is rated to last about 20 years. The SDRAM of main memory looses everything once the PC is powered down. It is also a charge based memory that will begin to fail after time. True SRAM is used only in microcontrollers; however, they also depend on charge based storage for their software.

Only the "plated wire" read-only memories used in computers of the Apollo era were truly long lasting. Voyager software is in such memory.

49 posted on 12/26/2019 2:42:11 PM PST by GingisK
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To: GingisK

Thank you very much for the time to share that knowledge! Some of it I did understand already, but I learned quite a bit more with this thorough explanation.

Thank you!


51 posted on 12/26/2019 4:54:46 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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