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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: ROM pinout confusion
Message-ID: <11907@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 29 May 90 16:50:40 GMT
References: <3276@eklektik.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <3276@eklektik.UUCP> danbabcock@eklektik.UUCP (/dev/ph1) writes:

>I hope it's the nonstandard pinout that disappears and not the other!

How do pick which one is standard?  Since we've been using the standard 
pinout, as dictated by Japan, Inc. since before there WERE EPROMS in the
128K x 16 or 256K x 16 package, I claim that the ROM pinout IS the
standard.  Intel can come along any time they please, I suppose, and 
choose a different pinout, but that is not going to make it the standard.
It's unfortunate they didn't see fit to use the already existing pinout
for the EPROMs, but it's something we'll have to live with.  We do
expect the majority of A3000s to have ROMs in them.

   "The great thing about standards is that there are so many of them"

>-- Dan Babcock

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