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From: bvk@hhb.UUCP (Brett Kuehner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Custom Chips
Summary: More questions
Keywords: Amiga, Denise, Paula, Agnus, Gary
Message-ID: <202@hhb.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 89 16:01:44 GMT
References: <1845@aucs.UUCP> <10460@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <23605@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
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In article <23605@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, johnf@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Flanagan) writes:
> In article <3749@sugar.hackercorp.com> karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
> >In article <1845@aucs.UUCP> 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Alan W. McKay) writes:
> >>The Amiga has three custom chips, right?  Denise, Paula and Agnus.  Fine.
> >
> Which brings up something I've been wondering for a while:
> is the chip really named "Agnus" or "Agnes"?  The A500 manual lists it as 
> "Agnus", but I think I've seen authoritative (C-A) people spell it 
> "Agnes."  Was one of the secretaries named Agnes?  Or was the reference
> suposed to be to lambs?  Or maybe it originally referred to a person, 
> but the spelling was changed out of tact when the chip was fattened? :-)
> 
> >-- uunet!sugar!karl  | "Nobody hipped me to that, dude." -- Pee Wee
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> 
> John Flanagan
> johnf@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu

And why is "Fat Agnus" also called "FANG" in the schematics? For quite a while
after I saw that, I involuntarily read "Agnus" as "Angus", which I guess would
be a cow, not a lamb.... I'm sooo confused.


		Brett
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