Thus spake Dave Mullenix (djmullen@FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU):

> Faster, actually.  Schottkey TTL is standard TTL, except that special
> diodes (called, surprisingly enough, Schottkey diodes) are built into

Just a little point, folks (and I apologize for being pedantic) - it's
called Schottky (no 'e') and is named after Walter Schottky, a German
physicist who invented the screen grid and tetrode vacuum tubes! He also
described (in 1938) the behaviour of a metal-semiconductor junction that is
the basis of the Schottky TTL we still use today. He died in 1976 at the age
of 90. What an amazing life he must have had! Born in the steam age, lived
to see the beginning of the microcomputer revolution.

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