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- From: adh@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
- Subject: Re: Sun's ZS chips (was Re: Old Sun question - HELP!!!!!)
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:53:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.155339.16044@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1993Jan9.022926.26234@siemens.com> <1993Jan10.150522.8160@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <C0ovHw.28H@lysator.liu.se>
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- In article <C0ovHw.28H@lysator.liu.se> pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson) writes:
- "But I agree, Sun could have choosen to use the newer Z85230 (I think that
- "was the name of the new version of the old Z8530) chip. It has receive
- "and transmit FIFOs making it possible to reduce the number of interrupts
- "needed (with a little clever programming) while still being backwards
- "compatible.
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- are they pin-compatible? enquiring minds want to know...
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