QBUS Board ID?

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Tue Jul 10 12:35:37 2001

On July 10, Will Jennings wrote:
> Um, how are the 8X305 and the PIC related? Totally different companies, and
> the 8X300 (which the 8X305 is descended from), is older than the original
> PIC, to the best of my knowledge... PIC = General Instruments, while 8X300 =
> SMS, later bought by Signetics.. or the 2650 was the SMS chip, at any rate,
> it was a Signetics chip..

  GI adapted the SMS/Signetics 8x300 for use as a peripheral interface
controller (PIC) to augment the poor I/O of its CP1600 processor. GI's
IC division was spun off to form Arizona Microchip Technology (sound
familiar?) in the mid 80's, producing EPROMs, EEPROMs, and..."PIC"
processors.

          -Dave McGuire
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