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**Intro:
The information  contained within this  file should not  be considered
100%  correct.   Where  possible   information  has  been  taken  from
datasheets, however  even this info  may be incorrect.  The datasheets
state what  the chip should  do, not what  they actually do.  This is,
compounded further by different revisions of chips.

This  document will  never be  complete, and  I have  no intention  of
finding every  datasheet for  every chip  set. Some  of the  chip sets
listed are  from later systems  in the PIII/P4/Athlon era.   There are
many websites  with information on  these chip sets and  these entries
will likely not be expanded upon.  The focus of this document is early
PC/XT to  Pentium chip sets.  There are  few sites that  clearly illu-
strate this information, and how they relate to each other.

I  aim  to  prioritize   cataloging  significant,  rare  or  otherwise
interesting chip sets.

BTW the reason I wrote all of this down, is so that I could FORGET it.
Basically I needed to free  up some RAM.  I've  a head full  of arcane
snippets of  information on this subject.   I don't want to  end up  a
crazy old man  ranting random disjointed information  ("The C&T CS8220
came before the CS8221 you KNOW!") to disinterested passersby,  unable
to see how senile I've become. A side benefit, this might be useful to
someone else:-)

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**Cant find a chip?...
**Why this document is not GPL or a wiki...
**Definition of a chip set:...
**'chip set', 'chip-set' or 'chipset'?...
**What's not included:...
**Who made the first chip set?...
**Spelling errors/mistyped words...
**Info needed on:
Columbia Data Products first implementation
AT&T 6300/M24
Compaq Portable implementation
Compaq Deskpro 386
PS/2 model 30

**A note on VESA support of 486 chipsets.
Many chipsets state  that they support VESA local  bus.  In some cases
these actually  implement VLB somewhat  like PCI, where it  is entirly
decoupled from the CPU bus. Chipsets  that do not state they work with
VLB,  may  be found  on  motherboards  that  contain VLB  slots.   VLB
is  *basically*  The 486  CPU  pinout in  a  slot  form. Unless  these
m/boards contain  some additional  chips, there VLB  implementation is
directly coupled to the CPU.

**Datasheets:...
*_IBM...
*ACC Micro...
*ALD...
*ALi...
*AMD . . . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
*Chips & Technologies...
*Contaq  . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
*Efar Microsystems [no datasheets, some info]...
*ETEQ...
*Faraday...
*Forex . . . . . . [List only, no datasheets found]...
*Intel...
**82396SX     Smart Cache                                     12/17/90
***Notes:...
***Info:...
***Versions:...
***Features:...
**82485       Turbo Cache (and 485Turbocache)                      c90...
**82489DX       Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller    10/12/92...
**82495DX/490DX DX CPU-Cache Chip Set                           <Sep91...
**82495XP/490XP Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for i860)       06/05/91...
**82496/491     Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P5 Pentium) 03/22/93...
**82497/492   Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium)    <Nov94...
**82498/493   Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium)    <Nov94...
**
**Later chipsets (basic spec):
**440 series:...
**450NX  (?)            06/29/98:...
**?????  (Profusion)    c:99...
**800 series...
*Headland/G2...
*HMC (Hulon Microelectronics)...
*Logicstar...
*Motorola...
*OPTi...
**82C700         FireStar                                         c:97
***Info:...
***Configurations:...
***Features:...
**82C701         FireStar Plus                                    c:97...
**82C750         Vendetta      [no datasheet]                        ?...
**82c801         SCWB2 DX Single Chip Solution                    c:92...
**82C802         SCWB2 PC/AT Single Chip [no datasheet]              ?...
**82C802G/GP     System/Power Management Controller (cached)      c:93...
**82C895         System/Power Management Controller (cached)   c:Sep94...
**82C898         System/Power Management Controller (non-cache)c:Nov94...
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**Support Chips:
**82C601/2       Buffer Devices                                 <Nov94...
**82C822         PCIB (VLB-to-PCI bridge)                         c:94
***Notes:...
***Info:...
***Versions:...
***Features:...
**Other:...
*PC CHIPS/Amptron/Atrend/ECS/Elpina/etc...
*SIS...
*Symphony...
*TI (Texas Instruments)...
*UMC...
*Unresearched:...
*VIA...
*VLSI...
*Western Digital...
*Winbond...
*ZyMOS...
*General Sources:...