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Old 27th Mar 2021, 7:21 pm   #273
SiriusHardware
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Default Re: I found it! A very sorry looking MK14.

Code with a side order of eggy toast: What could be nicer?

The Tesla devices may not have appeared until quite a bit later and I think the AMD 27S... devices are also next-gen - those databooks linked to a few posts back have cross references to quite a few other-manufacturer devices that the Nat Semi devices are equivalents of but both the Tesla and AMD devices are absent from those tables.

I wonder if the Tesla clones came about as a result of a cold-war embargo which prevented US technology from being supplied to iron-curtain countries (pure speculation on my part, but it would explain why so few 'western' programmers support the Tesla devices, which maybe didn't appear on the world market until after the fall of the iron curtain).

The AMD 27S13As I got from kan_turk, being the 'A' version, are the faster version which usually goes hand in hand with being more power hungry, so the 'plain' 27S13 may be even more economical in that respect.
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