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- From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 8372A vs. 8375 (hello LSI-guys)
- Message-ID: <37833@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 22:45:13 GMT
- References: <K0t7s*342@laosinh.stgt.sub.org> <Bz7E7p.Ho@cs.dal.ca>
- Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <Bz7E7p.Ho@cs.dal.ca> hart@ug.cs.dal.ca (Todd Darrell Raymond Hart) writes:
- > Well I upgraded my 500 to 1meg chip ram... I asked for the 8372A and got a
- > 8375. I was told they were identical, just a name change. Well I went home
- > and installed the thing in my machine. It works just fine!!! If there is
- > a difference in the pin-outs then they must reconfigure :)
-
- They are essentially the same chip, with the bonding pads re-arranged
- slightly to optimize things for the A500+/A600 bondout. There are
- multiple bond-outs possible for either chip, though I think that the
- 8375 has only been bonded out per the A500+/A600 versions (PAL, NTSC)
- hough there are 8372's in all possible versions.
-
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