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