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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject: Re: hefty data sheet
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:37:55 +0100
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On 3/16/25 10:27, Martin Brown wrote:
> On 15/03/2025 19:39, john larkin wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:56:25 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/14/2025 6:34 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>>> https://www.ti.com/lit/pdf/spruim2
>>>>
>>>> That's 10419 pages. Has anyone seen a bigger data sheet?
>>>>
>>>> And what's a spruim?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I need a printed copy to put on someone's desk when they says "8 bit is
>>> obsolete, just use an ARM"
>>
>> If you print on both sides, the stack will be about 2 feet high.
>> Better buy some toner things.
> 
> Perhaps they are trying for the Guinness Book of Records?
> Longest meaningless datasheet.
> 
>> It would take an army of engineers to use a chip like that. That would
>> need a giant market.
> 
> I think there is a lot of duplication from a (very) quick scan.
> IOW the authors were paid by the word.
> 

Don't you guys simply look for another chip if the manual is
too much to digest?

I would.

Jeroen Belleman