What group made it?

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(03-18-2020 06:50 AM)cyrille de brébisson Wrote:  Hello,

>Where does the 35s (or the 32SII) fit in there? I'm particularly interested
>in the design history of the former.
in the early 2000s, we lost the ability to make any of the saturn based chips...
The designs were to old and we did not have any HW experience...
So we could not manufacture the 32S anymore... Hence the 32SII.

Thanks for the additional history and background Cyrille, possibly new material for another revision of Wlodek's book?

In the details above you describe the reasons for starting new designs for non-Saturn machines; I think this applies to creation of the 33S and not the 32SII, right? The 32SII definitely came from the Corvallis team as I recall stories of Joe Horn finding bugs in the 32SII Fractions feature with folks in Corvallis.

This also makes sense considering the radically different mechanical design of the 33S, while the 32SII is pure Pioneer.

The design of the 33S is very polarizing, nearly everyone loves it or hates it; very few users are indifferent about the chevrons and silver finish.

Again, thanks for taking time to fill in some gaps.