Date   : Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:39:03 +0100
From   : adsb@... (Andrew Benham)
Subject: Spitting expletives

On 26/07/10 12:33, J.G.Harston wrote:

> Not as bad as the Speech system where some combination of events
> (Acorn programmed thousands of PHROMs wrong?) byte data has to
> be reversed before being sent.

The speech system uses Texas Instruments chips, and they had the habit
at the time of labelling the pins on their chips for the data bus as
D0 to D7 - where D7 was the LSB and D0 the MSB.  Acorn weren't the
only people to do caught out by this non-standard (and stupid!)
labelling.

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Andrew Benham         adsb@...       
Southgate, London N14, United Kingdom

The gates in my computer are AND OR and NOT, not "Bill"