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**82C596/A  3/486 Writeback Cache [no datasheet]             <11/11/92
Possibly  two variant,  or one  version with  two names,  one  being a
shorthand:
82C596
82C596A

ftp://ami.com/archive/Other_Manuals/!index.txt
lists the A variant with the date 11/11/92. No date for non-A:
" 
CTQ596.Z06    	88900   12-21-92  3/486 Contaq 596 chipset    06-06 core  
CTQ596A.Z11   	95383   10-07-93  3/486 Contaq 596-A for 11/11/92  
CTQ596_3.Z06   	92195   03-01-93  386   Contaq 596  
CTQ596_3.Z11    98031  	06-21-93  386   Contaq 596
CTQ596_4.Z06    92236  	03-01-93  486   Contaq 596
CTQ596_4.Z11    97602  	06-21-93  486   Contaq 596
CT596A.Z08   	96217   12-09-93  Contaq 596a  
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Note, the column of dates is the file date.

**??????    486 EISA chipset [no datasheet]                     <Feb93...
**82C599    PCI-VLB Bridge [no datasheet, some info]                 ?

82C599 PCI-VLB Bridge referenced in:
http://web.mit.edu/netbsd/src/sys/dev/pci/pcidevs

from:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050313090427/http://www.os2forum.or.at/english/info/os2hardwareinfo/pci_chips.html

"The Contaq Chipset (Contaq: 1080/4224) (8/27/95)

The Contaq 82C599  is paired with one of  their 486VL chipsets (82C596
or  82C597) and  bridges directly  from the  486 CPU  to the  PCI bus.
Paraphrased from the Contaq spec.:

The  82C596 system  controller provides  the CPU  interface,  VESA bus
interface, ISA bus controller, etc. The 82C599 PCI controller provides
the bridge  between PCI master/slave  agent and the  ISA/VESA standard
expansion  bus; it arbitrates  all the  bus transactions  between host
CPU, PCI agent, VESA device, and ISA device.

(Which sounds to me like the PCI bus is attached to the VL bus, rather
than to the CPU, which will cause PCI performance degradation.)"

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