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From: edwardm@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Edward McClanahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Optical Drive Controller Chips
Message-ID: <680013@hpcuhc.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 89 00:36:30 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> I don't have a NeXT, but I was wondering if someone who did could
> look inside it and tell me who makes the Optical Drive controller
> chips.

According to Bruce Webster's "NeXT Book", and several technical articles
in Byte, Unix World, etc..., the chip which controls the Optical Drive
was designed by NeXT, Inc.

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