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From: ytsuji@wucc.waseda.ac.jp (Y.Tsuji)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: SCSI chip project
Summary: muPD765 to be avoided.
Message-ID: <5608@wucc.waseda.ac.jp>
Date: 7 May 91 00:38:07 GMT
References: <5578@wucc.waseda.ac.jp> <12850@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> <19062@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
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In article <19062@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) writes:
> If your going to do go to this then why not go with the NEC 765
> which was based on an Intel Floppy disk Controler, and National has
> a new and improved model. The chip, in all its varients, has odd-ball
> timing delay constrains but it is used in the PC's and so would more
> likely be available for some time to come.
> -- 
> 
> John Clark
> jclark@ucsd.edu

What is said here is to abandon ATARI ST and goto PC. I have been with
Motorola 680x[x] and Western Digital 1791 series for too long to go to
the other side of the trench. I admit there is nothing rational in this.
NEC's 765 (it's now called muPD72067) cannot read a sector when its size
is not known beforehand. I also admit 1791 series users tend to set
'protection' on their disks too easily. I heard that WD has gone over
to NEC's side. Bad news. But Fujitsu, the NEC's arch-enemy and the largest
computer company in Japan is still on 1791's side. I wonder why ATARI simply
don't ask FUJITSU to manufacture a WD1772 clone? ATARI won't sell enough to
pay the cost of building another chip plant. I am sure FUJITSU can sell the
WD1772 clone with a high speed mode cheaper than any other company. (
I have nothing to do with FUJITSU.)
Dr Y Tsuji
ytsuji@jpnwas00.BITNET