On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 01:15:18AM -0400, Ricardo Ponte G wrote:
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>         "PICmicro FLASH device" so, what«s the mean of " FLASH device " 

It's a device that indecently exposes itself :-)

Seriously, FLASH is a fancy term for a kind of electrically-erasable
programmable read-only memory (EEPROM). The exact difference between
FLASH and regular EEPROM depends on which marketing person you talk to,
but basically FLASH is always bulk-erased, whereas (some) EEPROM can be byte
erased.

I think the original term came from the fact that it can be erased in a flash.

Cheers, Clyde

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