On Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:41:45 -0500, you wrote:

>To the best information resource on the net,
>
>I've been tossing around the idea of building my own GAL programmer for
>16V8s and 20V8s, BUT!  It seems that the people who make them (NS & SGS
>Thompson) are keeping the programming specs a secret (lots o' money maybe).
I think the main reason for this  is to avoid bad programmer designs
programming parts unreliably, giving the chips a bad rep.  The only
PLD programming specs I've ever seen are the old TI bipolars, and
Cypress' early eprom devices. 
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