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I am unclear on what is meant by ROM. Don't most smartphones store their operating system on the same flash memory as user data? If it is all on one writable de
by gnu8 6y ago
I am unclear on what is meant by ROM. Don't most smartphones store their operating system on the same flash memory as user data? If it is all on one writable device, then ROM chips don't enter into this discussion.
- delecti 6y agoROM refers to third party distributions of OSs for phones. I can't find anything documenting the etymology, but I assume it's derived from rips of games used in emulation, which are in fact downloaded from "read-only memory".
- compressedgas 6y agoThe device contains memory that is only writable during ROM image flashing. The rest of the time this storage is not writable. So it is effectively ROM even if it isn't implemented by actual read only memory.