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Old 05-11-2013, 02:54 PM
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Back in the late 70's and 80's chip makers made microprocessors that had built in RAM and ROM, the ROM could be "metal masked" with the programming. Metal mask was a final step in chip making, essentially a layer of wiring superimposed on the chip. Done when the buyer wanted a few hundred thousand of them.
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