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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cbmvax!grr
  2. From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: TFL Chip Ram Accelerator
  5. Message-ID: <36687@cbmvax.commodore.com>
  6. Date: 5 Nov 92 05:24:39 GMT
  7. References: <1cf16iINNo8o@uwm.edu> <36365@cbmvax.commodore.com> <copes.720074542@marsh> <36420@cbmvax.commodore.com> <copes.720668872@marsh> <36672@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Nov5.012915.24875@ra.msstate.edu>
  8. Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
  9. Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
  10. Lines: 22
  11.  
  12. In article <1992Nov5.012915.24875@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
  13. > In article <36672@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
  14. > <much deleted>
  15. > 
  16. > >density or custom parts.  Something like today's Bridgette chip could have 
  17. >                                                   ^^^^^^^^^
  18. > What's this Dave?  We've all heard of Agnus, Denise, Paula, Gary, Buster,
  19. > DMAc, Alice, Lisa, Ramsey, and Gayle, buy who/what is Bridgette?
  20. > 
  21. > Inquiring Amigans need to know!  :-)
  22.  
  23. Bridgette is the A4000 data path gate array.  It implements the gateway between
  24. chip memory and the processor bus and handles the details of the 16/32 bit chip
  25. memory bridging.
  26.  
  27. The A1200 contains a chip called Budgie that does pretty much the same thing,
  28. but also includes memory decode and control.
  29.  
  30. -- 
  31. George Robbins - now working for,     work:   to be avoided at all costs...
  32. but no way officially representing:   uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
  33. Commodore, Engineering Department     domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
  34.