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Re: WOM





On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 PHYS010@NMSUVM1.NMSU.EDU wrote:

It finally happened. A product which I first heard of in an April Fool's
joke has finally been developed. I quote from a national electronics
magazine which shall mercifully be nameless.
"The memory space ... is divided into three kinds of memory: random
access memory, read/write momory and write only memory."
^^^^^^
Is this when students write home to mom?

I thought write-only memory used to be called the bit-bucket. Anyway,
every computer should have it, for much of what's done on computers ought
to go there, never to be read again.

-- Donald