[sdiy] IN your mind, what is ....

[Ian Fritz]

At 08:52 AM 1/30/2004, jhaible at debitel.net wrote:

>Oops, yes, "Norton amp" - I certainly didn't intent to coin another
>word myself. (;->)

I didn't mean to imply that you had coined it.  If Pease was complaining 
"It's not an opamp", then someone must have been calling it that.  The Horn 
book just mentioned could have been one example.  I just hadn't been aware 
of this issue before.

>So, has there been a "Norton amp" before the 3900, or was the
>word introduced to describe this chip?

Don't know.  I presume someone named Norton invented the topology, but I 
have never seen an actual reference.

It would be fun to experiment with the 359 ... but so little time.

   Ian