''sman those are great, but just wish there was some way these writups could emphisize that this coupling of microprocessor with ram was 'a first in portabl/handheld devices,' done in 1996 with Intel and Sandisk and created the first flash file management systen between nonvolitile mem [flash] and the microprocessor.''

It existed prior to that in eeprom/bios/rom.

And it's still there, ergo, my chip comments

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