Re: Memory management FAQ

> EA> CMOS - hm... "C" metal on semiconductor :-)

Complementary (transistors) Metal Oxid Silicon.
This means one positive and one negative transistor are used in
pairs and they have insulated gates. This is a circuit with
_very_ low power consuption.

>      "Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor". This is name of technology,
> which also was used as name for chip with small amount of nonvolatile memory
> (to be precise: there was used simple accumulator). This memory was appeared
> before when flash memory was developed, but this name up to now used for
> nonvolatile memory, which used to store hardware timer value and BIOS
> settings.

the chip houses also the Real Time Clock chip which would need 
a battery anyway

Alain