On Feb 3, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Wh=E1t I do
remember is that the Motorola chips were simple and
elegant
compared to the Intel chips.
That is almost always the case :-). In fact just about every Intel
chip
I've ever used has had a major dsesign misfeature. Heck, they're
the only
company that managed to screw up the design of a parallel interface
chip.
The 8255 with its stupid reset-all-pin-states-on-mode-change
business?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL