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From: rap@rap.ardent.com (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Definitive (I believe) source of the names for custom chips
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Date: 4 May 89 17:24:39 GMT
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I have sorta waited in the wings on this one, but I believe I remember
the "real" source of the names for the custom chips.   The names are
just a way of referring to the chips, but it is the first Letter of
each name that actually dictated why a particular leading-letter
name was chosen:

	A = ADDRESS (Agnus) - where most of the DMA logic and blitter are.

	D = DATA (Daphne)   - has the color registers and a few other items.

	P = PERIPHERALS (Portia) - includes the disk controller and audio.

	G = GLUE-logic (Gary) - recently added to simplify the design

Sorry, nobody ever told me where BUSTER ever came from, but then he didn't
hang around for very long anyway.

Rob Peck			(author of the Amiga Hardware Manual)