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From: bdiscoe@tybalt.caltech.edu (Ben W. Discoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Custom Chips
Keywords: Amiga, Denise, Paula, Agnus, Gary
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Date: 22 Apr 89 19:54:01 GMT
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In article <1845@aucs.UUCP> 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Alan W. McKay) writes:
>
>The Amiga has three custom chips, right?  Denise, Paula and Agnus.  Fine.
>That was their names in the orignal 1000.  O.K. so who is this Gary guy
>that I've been hearing about?  Did one of the other chips get a sex-change?
>

Well, I've been around a while (keeping track of this here Amiga-Loraine
machine since it's first appearance on mag covers) and I've more names than
those for the most excellent chips.

   Denise <-> Daphne
   Paula  <-> Portia
   Agnus  <-> Agnes

  or Larry, Curly and Moe or whatever you like.  Gary is a new gate-array chip
who appears mostly to straighten things out since the A1000.

   Does anyone (like real C-A people) know the inside on this topic?

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just a frosh on pass/fail... Ben Discoe