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From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: SCSI chip project
Message-ID: <19507@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Date: 18 May 91 00:41:31 GMT
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In article <5608@wucc.waseda.ac.jp> ytsuji@wucc.waseda.ac.jp (Y.Tsuji) writes:
+ Stuff about NEC 765 and a replacement for the 17xx floppy
+ controler.
+
+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.

I don't think using the NEC chip implies going with the x86
processor as well. I did an OS9/68k driver for the National
incarnation of the 765 most recently. The first driver I wrote for
the chip was for a Z80(ca. '82/83) application so the processor is not
particularly important.
-- 

John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu