rap@rap.ardent.com (Rob Peck) (05/05/89)
I have sorta waited in the wings on this one, but I believe I remember the "real" source of the names for the custom chips. The names are just a way of referring to the chips, but it is the first Letter of each name that actually dictated why a particular leading-letter name was chosen: A = ADDRESS (Agnus) - where most of the DMA logic and blitter are. D = DATA (Daphne) - has the color registers and a few other items. P = PERIPHERALS (Portia) - includes the disk controller and audio. G = GLUE-logic (Gary) - recently added to simplify the design Sorry, nobody ever told me where BUSTER ever came from, but then he didn't hang around for very long anyway. Rob Peck (author of the Amiga Hardware Manual)
page%rishathra@Sun.COM (Bob Page) (05/05/89)
rap@rap.ardent.com (Rob Peck) wrote: > D = DATA (Daphne) - has the color registers and a few other items. > P = PERIPHERALS (Portia) - includes the disk controller and audio. Daphne begat Denise, and Portia begat Paula. > G = GLUE-logic (Gary) - recently added to simplify the design I thought Gary was for "Gate Array". >Sorry, nobody ever told me where BUSTER ever came from, but then he didn't Bus Arbitrator? Dave? George? ..bob
jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) (05/05/89)
In article <6297@ardent.UUCP> rap@rap.ardent.com (Rob Peck) writes:
)Sorry, nobody ever told me where BUSTER ever came from, but then he didn't
)hang around for very long anyway.
Bus control, I think.
jimm
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Opinions are my own. Comments are not to be taken as Commodore official policy.daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) (05/09/89)
in article <103081@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, page%rishathra@Sun.COM (Bob Page) says: >>Sorry, nobody ever told me where BUSTER ever came from, but then he didn't > Bus Arbitrator? Dave? George? Close enough. It really should be Buster, not BUSTER, cause it's for Bus controller. I suppose you could get clever and find something busish for the T-E-R to stand for, but I never have. > ..bob -- Dave Haynie "The 32 Bit Guy" Commodore-Amiga "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: D-DAVE H BIX: hazy Amiga -- It's not just a job, it's an obsession