> At 08:53 PM 2/2/2012, John Gardner wrote:
>> Was'nt the SPO256 originally a General Instruments chip?
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> Yep.=A0 Microchip was spun off from General Instruments.=A0 The original=
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> PIC chips had a GI logo on them - Microchip didn't exist back then.
>

I started off (as a school boy) building a system based in GI's LP8000=20
chip set :-)

PeterO

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