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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Dan_E_Babcock
- From: Dan_E_Babcock@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 8520's
- Message-ID: <65209@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 09:49:29 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: na
- References: <1992Sep3.145407.28649@coe.montana.edu>
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- >Are the 8520's just relabeled 6526's (I think I read this in the
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- If memory serves the main difference is in how the TOD (time of day)
- counter works. On the 8520 the TOD is a 24-bit binary counter, while
- on the 6526 it's in some other format.
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- Dan
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