Talk:Write-only memory

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[edit] writeonlymemory.com

I suppose it would be inappropriate to put on the article page that my blog is at writeonlymemory.com. Oh well. Aaronrp 03:34, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] blackbox = WOM !?

If ROM means read-only-memory and if we see this in a strict sense(no initial "writing"), there would also be no application for ROM. But actually there is. And that's because the value is initialized before going into regular use. Therefore ROM means "initialize once and read only in regular use". Isnt in that sense a voice recorder ("black box") in an airplane something like a WOM ? In regular use(during flight) you would always write to it and never read, however, once the plane crashed you would disassemble it and read it out using different techniques ... Kevin 89.53.3.68 21:02, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

In fact we must look at this R/WOM as part of a system. We could stay something like:
"From a systems engineering point of view, a Write Only Memory is a part of the system architecture, where the system can only write data but has now way of reading it..".
This does not exclude the fact, thet the data could be recovered after breakup of the system or as part of a larger system. -- Petri Krohn 02:08, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
P.S. Systems can be said to have an event horizon; what ever happens or does not happen beyond the horizon is outside the system. For a ship, whatever happens in the bottom of the sea, after sinking, is definitely beyound the the event horizon. -- Petri Krohn 02:14, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Good points, accept I would not say, R/WOM but rather:

  • ROM really means: W/ROM
  • WOM really means: WOM/R

so I incorporated this in the article

[edit] AQL vs. selling price

Does anybody know what AQL stands for? -- RoySmith (talk) 13:30, 25 May 2007 (UTC) Done !!! Martin

[edit] WOM in Literature

David Brin used WOM in his Uplift Universe, as a monitoring device present on all ships, similar to a black box, except they were designed to be very difficult to read without waiting many thousands of years. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.183.82.162 (talk) 21:50, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Practical uses

The 'quantum computing' bit being under 'practical uses' made me laugh out loud. (Not that there's anything wrong with it!) ChaosFish (talk) 22:30, 9 June 2008 (UTC)