At 13:21 9/26/97 -0700, you wrote: I called a guy who was a logic designer at Intel during the period and who has samples of most of the pertinent Intel chips from, say, the 8048 to current. He has no 8232 and claims never to have seen one or a data sheet for it. It was so lackadaisically marketed by Intel that he suspects it was a cross-license from AMD and that someone at Intel objected to the architecture. __________________________________________ Kip Crosby engine(a)chac.org http://www.chac.org/index.html Computer History Association of California