Matt Mc_Carthy wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> One of the things I always found interesting about core was that 
 RJT> if for some reason you lost power,  and if the particular 
 RJT> machine supported it,  you could power back up and pick up 
 RJT> exactly where you left off...

 MMC> That CAN be done with static RAM also, if you provide a battery
 MMC> backup to the RAM.

This is true,  but there aren't that many cpu chips around that have static
ram in them...  And you have to be more careful about glitching it when the
power is going away and coming back,  compared to core.

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