Re: A89: Flash ROM-Archive command
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Re: A89: Flash ROM-Archive command
At 02:54 AM 10/9/98 EDT, you wrote:
>
>> Recently I e-mailed TI asking them about the fact that since the archive is
>a
>> Flash eeprom chip, if the possibility of simply archiving a variable over
>> and
>> over again would possibly burn out the archive, and their response was
quite
>> interesting, it doesn't. No singel archive and unarchive will burn out the
>> chip, instead, the chip has been redesigned to only "gain" age whenever a
>> "garbage collection" takes place. So basically, you'd not only have
archive
>> a
>> variable enough times to make the calc preform a garbage collection, then
>> you'd have to do it again, and again, etc. Basically you'd have to perfrom
>> about 10,000 garbage collections, not simply 10,000 archives/unarchives.
>
>This is logical. The ROM will gain age when a variable is archived for the
>first time, but it's not removed from the archive until it is unarchived, and
>another variable is archived for the first time or a garbage collection is
>run.
>Therefore, those are the only two times the ROM ages.
>1. When a variable is archived for the first time.
>2. When a garbage collection is run.
>
What is a garbage collection?
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