flash erasable programmable read-only memory

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flash erasable programmable read-only memory - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
  FEPROM
  Flash EPROM
  flash memory
  Flash ROM
  
     <storage> (FEPROM, "flash memory") A kind of non-volatile storage
      device similar to EEPROM, but where erasing can
     only be done in blocks or the entire chip.
  
     In 1995 this relatively new technology started to replace
     EPROMs because reprogramming could be done with the chip
     installed.  At that time FEPROMs could be rewritten about 1000
     times.
  
     Like EAPROM and ferro-magnetic material, FEPROMs rely on FN tunnelling
     .  Some flash memory supports block erase.
  
     (1995-04-22)