> By the way, acording to the datasheet:
> "Byte Programming (7us typical)" which means about 7 secs per Megabyte and 112 secs
> for the longest game that has 16Mbytes.
>
> 2-3 minutes is very acceptable time for rewriting a game into the simm, comnpared to
> the 45 minutes that takes now, which is certainly too long.
The actual byte programming isn't the majority of the time taken; the "erase sector" command is. (This remains true even on modern SSDs and USB sticks and the like). On typical flash of that vintage, it can take a full second or more to erase a block, and you must erase each block prior to programming it. The System 573 games' setup process got an order of magnitude slower when smf put in proper erase timings, and I don't imagine it did CPS-3 any favors either.
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