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From: ytsuji@wucc.waseda.ac.jp (Y.Tsuji)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: 1.44 MB project
Summary: GAL not cost-effective
Message-ID: <5847@wucc.waseda.ac.jp>
Date: 15 Jun 91 00:34:30 GMT
References: <6252@mindlink.bc.ca>
Organization: The Centre for Informatics, WASEDA Univ.
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In article <6252@mindlink.bc.ca>, David_Galloway@mindlink.bc.ca (David Galloway) writes:
> 
>  I am interested in the PAL 16V8 idea...  (short enough for you?)  :) David
> Galloway, DSI

When the logic gates are so many, you might wish it to have only 28 pins or
so. But when the total pins of logic chips are less than one PAL or GAL or
whatever, I don't see any merits in using one. People use GALs to prevent
others to copy the hardware.
Talking of GAL/EPROM programmers, I wonder if we have loads of software
in atari.archive.umich.edu (to which I am not admitted) to make use of them.
There are dozens of those programmers around that can be plugged into
our serial ports or parallel ports and translating msdos software shouldn't
be difficult.

Tsuji