From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ihnss!knudsen Newsgroups: net.micro Title: What is a 16032? Article-I.D.: ihnss.1457 Posted: Tue Feb 22 15:59:41 1983 Received: Wed Feb 23 03:35:35 1983 Reply-To: knudsen@ihnss.UUCP (Mike J Knudsen, ihnss!knudsen) In his interesting speculations + help request the other day, Pournelle mentioned that the war between 8086, 68000, (& I guess Z8000) might be pre-empted by the "16032". What the heck is that? Is it made by National, or HP, or whom? Is it just a joke (look closely at that number)? If real, will it be able to overcome the software inertia/momentum that the other machines will have built up by that time? If not, can it run Smalltalk & fit in a briefcase? Maybe it's a bit-slice family -- build a 40-bit version for BASIC floating point, hey? mike k