Re: Zorro

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From: George Robbins
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1986 02:31

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In article <301@pttesac.UUCP> vanam@pttesac.UUCP (Marnix van Ammers) writes:
>OK, OK, OK.  I'm embarassed as hell to admit it, but I've got to.
>I don't know what a Zorro is (other than a character out of a TV
>show from long ago).
>
>Marnix A.  van\ Ammers

Well, I could be confused, but Zorro is actually the cutsey code name for the
standard Amiga mainboard.  The Amiga Expansion Architecture document gives
information about a Zorro expansion board, but this is an expansion board to
got with the Zorro board, not Zorro itself.

As the Amiga was being developed, different versions of the mainboard had
different names.  A previous board was named Velvet.  Also, the custom chips
named Denise and Paula were at one time Daphne and Portia...

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!cbmvax!grr
From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Zorro
Message-ID: <911@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 18-Oct-86 22:31:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.911
Posted: Sat Oct 18 22:31:26 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 21-Oct-86 06:18:23 EDT
References: <301@pttesac.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: Zorro standard backplane configuration board

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