David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 6/1/2008 3:09 PM CJT spake thus:

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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device in. Good
examples are

poorly designed

VCR and DVD recorders, coffeemakers with programmable cycles,
almost anything that stores settings

in volatile memory instead of the correct way

Right. Can you say "NOVRAM"?


Sure, and for cases where power is required all of the time use a high
efficiency switcher instead of the cheap walmart class junk currently in
use.