Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!rabbit!mjs From: mjs@rabbit.UUCP (M. J. Shannon, Jr.) Newsgroups: net.micro.16k Subject: IEEE-696 (S100) NS32016 (nee NS16032) CPU board? Message-ID: <3202@rabbit.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 07:08:58 EDT Article-I.D.: rabbit.3202 Posted: Mon Oct 1 07:08:58 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 05:33:30 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 26 Shortly after National announced the NS16000 series, Compupro/Godbout started advertising a whole flock of CPU boards, including one based on the NS16032 (with sockets for MMU and FPU). Last time I was moved enough to hassle them about its availability (about 6 months ago), I was told that they had `just sent the latest artwork for the PC board out,' and it should be available within a couple months. Well, I've been watching the ads in Byte (what else is there to read in there?), and haven't seen any indication in their ads that they have the board ready. Does anyone out in net-land know what the real poop is? Have any of you seen or actually used this board (or earlier revs)? Personally, I think the National chip set makes one of the most powerful 32-bit micros available today (sorry, Intel, your register architecture went out with the announcement of either IBM's 360 or DEC's PDP-11), and the IEEE-696 bus makes a whole raft of peripherals available that no other bus can touch (except maybe DEC's unibus, but PDP-11's are outclassed by the micros) these days. If anyone out there knows of the status of the Compupro/Godbout board or of any other (reputable) supplier's equivalent board, please let me know by mail. Much thanks. Various trademarks of various companies are used above. -- Marty Shannon UUCP: {alice,rabbit,research}!mjs (rabbit is soon to die. Does this mean alice is pregnant? Yup!) Phone: 201-582-3199