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On Thursday 04 October 2007, Liviu Andronic wrote: |
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> And later on: "Now one problem is |
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> left. Even with normal RAM a well funded organisation can get the |
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> contents after the system is powered off. With the modern SDRAM it's |
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> even worse, where the data stays on the RAM permanently until new |
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> data is written. |
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Pray tell, how does RAM manage to retain data when the power is off? |
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It's either six transistors or one transistor and a cap per cell = not |
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persistent. |
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I don't know of any magic persistent RAM that's fast enough for use as |
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main RAM. Flash disks are of course another story but you do appear to |
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be talking about system RAM |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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