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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: 26 Apr 89 11:14:48 GMT
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>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? :-)
>
>John Flanagan
>johnf@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu

  Ok, I posted this before, but it didn't seem to make it.  I've been
fascinated with the custom chips since the Amiga's debut on magazine covers
in mid '85.  I've seen the chips have distinctly different names:

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

Would somebody (like "authoritative" C-A people) please explain these?