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- From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 8520 CIA chips
- Message-ID: <37886@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 04:29:43 GMT
- References: <1fjktrINNibl@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU>
- Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <1fjktrINNibl@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> rxtajp@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Andrew Pettifer) writes:
- >Does anyone know what the alternate part number for the 8520 cia chips is?
- >I KNOW there is such a number, might be 65xx something, can someone post
- >the number please?
-
- You're ever-so-slightly confused. The C64 used a part called the 6526. The
- 8520 was derived from the 6526, but it's different in several ways. There's
- also an 8521, which is the same as the 6526 (well, a few bugs were fixed).
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