Re: Arcade board

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast DOT net>]

"Peter de Vroomen" <peterv[at][spamblock]jaytown[dot]com> wrote
in message news:4120bd41$0$65124$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
:
: > This last phrase is Bogus. It's best known as GLU or General
: > Logic Unit.
:
: Aren't you a bit confused with the 'GLU' chip in the Atari
ST's? It was
: short for Generalized Logic Unit. It acted as the glue that
connected all
: the components :).

Nope, not confused at all, in fact, that is exactly what I said.
a "GLU" is a single chip that performs the function of sometimes
an entire card full of logic gates. For example, the CPLD on the
CFFA could be called a "GLU".

: 'Glue logic' has imo allways been the term for all the
extraneous logic
: needed to connect the more integrated stuff to each other.
Buffers and
: latches are generally not seen as glue logic, although they are
also needed
: to help stuff work with each other.

Although in the A2 and some of the Commodore worlds that term
is wide-spread, I had never heard it used to describe "Logic"
in the sense of many chips. We always just called it "Logic".

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