On 07/28/2012 09:53 AM, Nicolas Welte wrote: > I found an interesting article/interview from two Signetics engineers > that worked on the development of the FPLA. Even the Commodore 64 is > mentioned in one sentence :) Maybe it's more interesting to read about > some technical details of the chip, how other fabs failed (MMI) to > second source the chip or got only a bad yield (Fairchield). Also > described is an option to do a mask programmed version of the FPLA, but > according to the interview no customer made use of them. > > I found this via the microcontroller forum: > http://www.mikrocontroller.net/topic/243938 > http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/Oral_History/102702200%20.05.01.acc.pdf The funny thing is... Did Commodore ever use the 82S100 in production C64 systems? So far I have only seen the 93459PC made by Fairchild in any of them. Gerrit Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2012-07-29 17:00:04
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