From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!amd70!eager Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Re: What is a 16032? Article-I.D.: amd70.1505 Posted: Wed Feb 23 17:57:21 1983 Received: Thu Feb 24 06:55:34 1983 References: ihnss.1457 The 16032 is indeed a National Semiconductor Corp. product. It was described in the April 24, 1980, issue of Electronics, page 123. The 16082 memory management unit is described in the current (Feb 24, 1983) issue of Electronics. Briefly, it is a 16 bit processor, well designed, high-level language oriented. It can work with a co-processor, if that appears. The chip is in production and boards using it have been out for a while. It was about a year later in getting to the market than its target. I'm not aware of a battle between the 8086 & 16000. If there is one, it is not clear to me that the 16000 will make any difference. It is very late to the market and has few supporting chips. Time will tell. -- Mike Eager amd70!eager