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This is a memory device. Once data is written to a PROM it is there forever, unlike with an EPROM. A PROM is also a curious high school ritual involving strangely colored dresses, tuxedos, and sometimes limousines, unconsciously mirroring the wedding rituals most of its participants will undergo at some point in the following 10-15 years. PROMs leave some traumatized and others gleeful, but everyone agrees the post-PROM
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Programmable Read Only Memory - http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4841045§ion=newsBy Justin HydeWASHINGTON (Reuters) - With Internet phone services signing upthousands of new customers a day, telecom industry observers arebeginning to question how well the old local phone companies willdefend themselves against a growing throng of competitors.So far, cable companies and firms like Vonage have only nibbled at theedges of the local telephone market with voice over Internet Protocolservice, or VOIP, winning about 250,000 customers.But as more households sign up for broadband Internet service, andlarger players such as AT&T Corp. unveil their VOIP service,executives and analysts see the threat to the Baby Bells rising.Full story at:http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4841045§ion=news
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