Erik N Basilier wrote:
>
> I am very familiar with the internals of computers, more than enough to
> know that these behaviors can be expected unless one pointedly designs
> to eliminate them, and that *can* be done. There is no fundamental
One factor to consider here is that the flash memory has a limited write
cycle life time, typically in the range of 100,000 to 1,000,000 cycles.
That means that you don't want to write every change back immediately.
> reasons that any machine that contains a computer needs to behave like a
> PC. I do not mean to criticize the design of the K3, particularly since
> we know that there are more important goals for the designers. My
> objective was just to find out whether the behavior of my K3 was
> consistent with the K3 design. In general, I find the K3 to be much more
> free from those "computerish" characteristics than a PC is, and that is
> one reason I am using a K3 and not a radio that depends on a PC to
> function.
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