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From: ins_anmy@jhunix.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Auto-config and timers
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Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 09:38:14 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  2 09:38:14 1987
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	I think Commodore should develop and make available a chip that does
autoconfig.  Such a chip would be programmable to respond in the right way to
autoconfig signals.

	This would make life easier for commercial developers and those who
merely want to do some hardware hacking (maybe C-A could sell the chips
preprogrammed too).

	Using this chip, it would be easier and less expensive to design
boards for the Amiga.  Boards would be available faster, and at a lower price.

	I am assuming some things here, which may not be correct.  First, that
currently autoconfig is difficult to design.  Second, that such a chip can be
built.

--
							 Norman Yarvin

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