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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Quattro PROM burners
Message-ID: <1989Jun20.170349.1563@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1524@ginosko.samsung.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 17:03:49 GMT

In article <1524@ginosko.samsung.com> duane@ginosko.samsung.com (Andrew Duane) writes:
>One specific question about them: one of our people claims that
>these units can tell what kind of chip and what manufacturer it
>is (i.e. family/part number) just by plugging the chip in. This
>sounds too good to be true. Is it?

No, it's for real.  Essentially (I think) all modern EPROMs have an
identifier feature, obtained by putting unusual voltages on one or two
pins, that reads out a manufacturer code and a type code.
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