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From: michael@otago.ac.nz
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Zilog combo SCSI/SCC Z85C80 SCSCI
Message-ID: <1991May3.093508.354@otago.ac.nz>
Date: 2 May 91 22:59:42 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.041843.2822461@locus.com><91114.212349LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <41874@cup.portal.com>
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In article <41874@cup.portal.com>, ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
> AAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!  Have you ever tried to work with both an
> 8530 and a 5380 and NOT get the names confused when talking to other
> people?  Why did they have to pick these two chips?

Ah. Open the back of virtually any model of Apple Macintosh. See the NCR 53C80
and the Z85C30. Consider the vast quantities of these chips that Apple uses.
Would Apple be interested in one chip that did both jobs? Darn right they
would...


Michael(tm) Hamel, Computing Services Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand

CORRIECRAVIE (n.)                  
To avert the horrors of corrievorrie (q.v.) corriecravie is usually
employed. This is the cowardly but highly skilled process by which both
protagonists continue to approach while keeping up the pretence that they
haven't noticed each other - by staring furiously into a notebook, or
studying the walls closely as if in a mood of deep irritation.