Right but it was the first and only transistor at the time, so it was competitive.

However a 100Kbit, quite fast memory that is expensive because it's made on a low volume manufacturing line, without the benefit of the billions of dollars spent developing silicon based manufacturing equipment is hardly going to be competitive in the market and won't be able to generate the cash necessary to build up a manufacturing infrastructure that can compete with cheaper, higher volume memories that are a 1000 times more dense.

There is a constant stream of 'flash killing' non volatile memories that never made it in the market. This will be one of them.

Some companies have called me to ask if they can use the crypto code on my website. I said yes because it's just a bit of code.
People make too big a deal about bits of code. Working systems are hard. Bits of code are trivial.

> Flash is orders of magnitude slower than DRAM

You will find that the datasheets I posted elsewhere in this thread show flash at a semiconductor technology level to be 2-10 times slower than modern DRAM. That is not 'orders of magnitude'.

You just explained why the interface is a significant issue, then your last sentence was that the interface isn't the issue.

Old school flash is the best though.
http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards/ml410/datasheets/M29F040B.pdf

See my other response. Those facts are lacking factuality.

50us? 50-100MHz? 1/50E-6 = 20KHz, not 50MHz.
http://download.micron.com/pdf/datasheets/flash/nand/2_4_8gb_nand_m49a.pdf -> Sequential READ: 30ns
I.E. half the speed of 15ns DRAM.

Parallel read stuff is a bit slower, but not a lot. You can pay more for faster and you can always wire it up in parallel.
http://download.micron.com/pdf/datasheets/flash/qflash/MT28F640J3.pdf

SRAM speed depends entirely on the context, of which there are many. The on chip ones I use take less than 1ns to read on a modern silicon process.

Eric Schultz appears to underestimate the ability of programmers to not give shit about licensing.
Lawyers want to wheedle their ways into all our lives. Ignore them, they won't go away, but it will simplify your life.

No. SRAM and DRAM are not particularly faster than flash for read operations. The bigger impact on flash vs. SRAM is that SRAM is often on chip whereas flash is stuck behind a slow interface.

Flash is many times slower for erase and write operations.

From the article: "10 micrometres wide"

So move on. There's nothing to be seen here.

Predicates are great, they let you be right even though you're not.
E.G: "If everything works fine, you should not even notice any difference"

This is true, but it doesn't tell you whether or not you will notice any difference, it just gives you the predicate under which you will not but doesn't walk the walk of telling you it will work fine.

No funny mods? It was a guitarist joke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt

I'm not, but if I was I wouldn't expect Google to bail me out.

Clicking on 4 bookmarks in the morning is not a great hardship. I might click on them again at lunch. I'm certain that it doesn't materially impact my spare time.

Ditto.