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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Multitasking Scripts on NCR 53c710
Message-ID: <20807@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 20 Apr 91 09:25:10 GMT
References: <1991Apr12.130847.13990@sinix.UUCP> <1991Apr13.164615.1117@netcom.COM> <20628@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Apr16.032356.25777@netcom.COM>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Apr16.032356.25777@netcom.COM> feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel) writes:
>I believe that the chips could be made to work really well with the
>Intel 386/486 architecture, but I gave up trying to explain to the NCR
>Colorado Springs people what they needed to do after I saw the results
>of the first go-round. Especially after it became clear that the ideas
>we were proposing were being incorporated into the chip being built
>for the 68000 cpu, but not into our chip.

	That doesn't make sense.  The same chip is used, as I understand it -
it has a little-endian/big-endian bit, and controls for bus arbitration
for 680x0/x86.  You've made a statement - back it up.  Note that I may not
see the "problems" since I work with 680x0 machines.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
Thus spake the Master Ninjei: "To program a million-line operating system
is easy, to change a man's temperament is more difficult."
(From "The Zen of Programming")  ;-)