From owner-freebsd-small Sat Jun 27 19:50:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA12555 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 19:50:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xyplex.com (xap.xyplex.com [140.179.130.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA12532 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 19:50:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpennell@xyplex.com) Received: from ltnsvex2.xyplex.com (east.xyplex.com [140.179.176.22]) by xyplex.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA11151; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 22:42:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from DPENNELL by ltnsvex2.xyplex.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1460.8) id K00JN98T; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 22:51:14 -0400 Message-ID: <001f01bda23e$7ffb0030$27b6b38c@david.pennell.org> From: "David Pennell" To: "Marc Nicholas" , "Mike Smith" Cc: "Peter Wallace" , "Christopher G. Petrilli" , "Andrzej Bialecki" , Subject: Re: I'm back. Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 22:43:11 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Actually, the best design I've seen so far uses a battery-backed SRAM >for initial storage, and then does a sweep every 10 minutes updating >changed pages into flash. When the power is off at the end of the >sweep, the battery gets disconnected, and then on power-up the SRAM is >repopulated. More complex, sure, but for some applications... Who manufactured that one? -david To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message