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From: phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Building from Scratch -- a Reminiscence (was: Radio Shack)
Message-ID: <20582@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 28 Feb 88 22:13:23 GMT
References: <1988Feb23.175954.5465@utzoo.uucp> <4367@aw.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices
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In article <4367@aw.sei.cmu.edu> rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Rich D'Ippolito) writes:
<block occupancy detectors, too.  The damn thing would be easy if I could buy
<a custom chip for the local block logic. A PLA with two dozen gates and four
<JKs would do the job for each block. Hell, I need a small SBC that runs Ada!

Sounds like a large PAL (23S8) would do. If not, surely an LCA would.
-- 
I speak for myself, not the company.

Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or phil@amd.com