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s/EEPROM/Flash/s/EEPROM/Flash/Posted Aug 14, 2012 17:37 UTC (Tue) by Jonno (subscriber, #49613)In reply to: s/EEPROM/Flash/ by mastro Parent article: CyanogenMod 9 is stable; 10 is underway
Flash is technically just a collection of EEPROMs, hidden behind a nice abstraction layer. The individual EEPROMs in a flash device are just called "erase blocks" nowadays...
That said, calling an RFS-image a "ROM" is really just legacy terminology, carried over to a replacement technology. Much like the term "broadband" is used to denote all fast network connections, even those not utilizing a broad frequency band...
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