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Astounded is correct...
memory terminology these days has gotten complicated.
As far as the Axim is concerned, the part of the ROM that is available to you as builtin storage can be read and written to and changed to your heart's content and you likely won't wear it out.
The majority of ROM, that is where the operating system resides, can't be changed under normal use but can be rewritten by operating system updates of which Dell has issued 2 so far.
As far as memory terminology goes, Read Only Memory is not entirely correct since we just said it could be written to and changed. I'm not a hardware expert but I'll try a loose explanation of memory: Well years ago Read Only Memory was manufactured that way and could be read but never changed. Then there was ROM that could be written to after it was manufactured (PROM) and ROM that could be changed later on (EPROM). Now we have ROM that is easier to change. I don't know what the correct terminology is for it.
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