gauging interest in VAX 6000-530

From: Dwight Elvey <elvey_at_hal.com>
Date: Tue Oct 26 19:26:58 1999

ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
> But equally, I wonder why Intel made it active high
> in the first place.
>
> -tony

Hi
 I would suspect that it was not intended to be tied
directly to a bus. One would normally have some robust
receiver that would invert the signal. In the days when
it was designed, the 0 to 2.5V TTL bus was just starting
out. Many had other voltage ranges and required some
conditioning. The simplest conditioning circuits usually
had an inverted signal out.
Dwight
Received on Tue Oct 26 1999 - 19:26:58 BST