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From: danbabcock@eklektik.UUCP (/dev/ph1)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: ROM pinout confusion
Message-ID: <3276@eklektik.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 90 14:45:58 GMT
Reply-To: danbabcock@eklektik.UUCP (/dev/ph1)
Organization: Computers, Gerbils, and Games in the Basement, Pgh, PA
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grr@cbmvax (George Robbins) wrote:

>It has - the extra pair of sockets is there only to support ROMS/EPROM with
>mutually incompatible pinouts.  They are very likely to dissapear on
>production systems.

I hope it's the nonstandard pinout that disappears and not the other!
I don't understand why the 500/2000 uses a nonstandard pinout; what's the
motivation? Secondly, since you have to make two sets of ROMs anyway
(a 16-bit version and a 32-bit version), there's no reason to choose
an incompatible pinout for the 3000's ROMs (i.e. backward compatability
is not an issue). Could you please clarify? (thanks!)

-- Dan Babcock
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