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**Why this document is not GPL or a wiki
The document is copyright,  it is NOT GPL'ed text. While  the GPL is a
fantastic  idea, I  have chosen  not to  make this  freely copied  and
modified. The reasons are as follows:

1. GPL text tends to be  copied...EVERYWHERE. For example, if you look
   up a subject  on wikipedia, then try to get  more information, or a
   different perspective on  say about.com.  There you  find the EXACT
   SAME  TEXT.  This  is what  mirrors  are for.   It's an  unintended
   consequence,  but  it  can  lead  to  misinformation  being  spread
   everywhere. A bigger problem.

2. There seems to be fewer  and fewer informative websites. It used to
   be that  if you  searched for  something you  would find  a website
   about a particular  subject. Now you tend to  find the encyclopedia
   and often nothing else (well quickly).

In addition the majority of this text is quotes.

The wiki  concept is a good  idea, but they have  problems. Because no
one "owns" the  work they seem to  go to two extremes.   Either no one
maintains them, or there are edit wars. Also anyone can edit them.

**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:...
**A note on VESA support of 486 chipsets....
**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...
**82496/491     Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P5 Pentium) 03/22/93
***Notes:...
***Info:...
***Configurations:...
***Features:...
**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:
Chips:
[82454NX] (PXB) [82453NX] (MUX) 
[82452NX] (RCG) [82451NX] (MIOC) 
[82371EB] (PIIX4E),                            
CPUs:          Single/Dual/Quad P-II Xeon/P-III Xeon
DRAM Types:    FPM EDO 2-way Interleave 4-way Interleave
Mem Rows:      8
DRAM Density:  16Mbit 64Mbit
Max Mem:       8GB
ECC/Parity:    Both
AGP speed:     N/A
Bus Speed:     100
PCI Clock/Bus: 1/3


**?????  (Profusion)    c:99...
**800 series...
*Headland/G2...
*HMC (Hulon Microelectronics)...
*Logicstar...
*Motorola...
*OPTi...
*PC CHIPS/Amptron/Atrend/ECS/Elpina/etc...
*SIS...
*Symphony...
*TI (Texas Instruments)...
*UMC...
*Unresearched:...
*VIA...
*VLSI...
*Western Digital...
**FE2010/A      XT CPU controller integrated Circuit         >11/22/85
***Notes:...
***Info:...
***Versions:...
***Features:...
**FE2011        CPU Core Logic for PS/2 Model 30 Compatible       c:87...
**FE3400/B      80286-Based AT Compatible CPU Core Logic (12 MHz) c:86...
**FE3500/B      80286-Based AT Compatible CPU Core Logic (12 MHz) c:87...
**FE3600/A/B/C  16/20MHz AT Chip set                              c:88...
**FE5300        CPU Core Logic for PS/2 Model 50/60 Compatibles   c:87...
**FE5400        CPU Core Logic for PS/2 Model 50/60 Compatibles   c:87...
**FE6500        CPU Core Logic for PS/2 Model 70/80 Compatibles   c:88...
**WD6400SX/LP   CPU Core Logic for PS/2 386SX Compatibles          <90...
**WD6500        CPU Core Logic for PS/2 386DX/486 Compatible       <90...
**WD7600A/LP/LV System Chip Set for 80286 or 80386SX         <11/25/91...
**WD7700/LP     System Chip Set for 80286 or 80386SX (Cache) <11/25/91...
**WD7855        System controller for 80386SX                <09/25/92...
**WD7900/LP/LV  System Chip Set for 80286 or 80386SX (Cache) <11/25/91...
**WD8110        System controller for 80386DX/486            <11/30/93...
**
**Support Chips:
**WD76C20x   Floppy, RTC, IDE and Support Logic Device       <11/25/91...
**WD76C30x   Perip. Ctrl, Interrupt Multiplex, and Clock Gen <11/18/91...
**WD7615     Desktop Buffer Manager                          <04/15/92...
**WD7625     Desktop Buffer Manager                          <10/01/92...
**WD8120LV   Super I/O [no datasheet]                                ?
**Other Chips:...
*Winbond...
*ZyMOS...
*General Sources:...