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- From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: TFL Chip Ram Accelerator
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.160906.22690@ra.msstate.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 16:09:06 GMT
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- In article <36687@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov5.012915.24875@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
- >> In article <36672@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
- >> <much deleted>
- >>
- >> >density or custom parts. Something like today's Bridgette chip could have
- >> ^^^^^^^^^
- >> What's this Dave? We've all heard of Agnus, Denise, Paula, Gary, Buster,
- >> DMAc, Alice, Lisa, Ramsey, and Gayle, buy who/what is Bridgette?
- >>
- >> Inquiring Amigans need to know! :-)
- >
- >Bridgette is the A4000 data path gate array. It implements the gateway
- >between chip memory and the processor bus and handles the details of the
- >16/32 bit chip memory bridging.
-
- Does this replace the rather large number of chips to the left of the
- daughterboard connector in the A3000? I'd wondered why this was not
- implemented as a gate array.
-
- You should have called it Ramona, sister of Ramsey. :-)
-
- >The A1200 contains a chip called Budgie that does pretty much the same thing,
- >but also includes memory decode and control.
-
- Budgie? Have you been reading those British children's books written by
- ex-royalty or something? :-)
-
- >--
- >George Robbins - now working for, work: to be avoided at all costs...
- >but no way officially representing: uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
- >Commodore, Engineering Department domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
-
- Skip Sauls, soon to be A4000 owner (finally got paid :-)
- skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu
-