At 13:32 02/17/99 -0500, Jack Shidemantle wrote: >I just rec'd the new Microchip line card. Inside they have a new >category of parts classified as "R" such as 12CR509. The only >difference they show is that the "R" version is classified as ROM >where the others are listed as OTP/Flash. Many of course are not >flash. OTP is ROM, so what are they getting at here? i don't know how they see it (like in marketing != technical), but ReadOnlyMemory is not OneTimeProgrammable memory. OTP is an EPROM variety, ROM is usually mask ROM. ge