Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxj.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!houxj!wapd From: wapd@houxj.UUCP (Bill Dietrich) Newsgroups: net.micro.16k Subject: Re: Series 32000 part numbering history Message-ID: <416@houxj.UUCP> Date: Tue, 23-Oct-84 09:22:09 EDT Article-I.D.: houxj.416 Posted: Tue Oct 23 09:22:09 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 24-Oct-84 03:54:16 EDT References: <24200001@cmcl2.UUCP>, <414@houxj.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 33 I forgot to mention one thing about the WE 32000 series of chips by AT&T (someone's mail reminded me) : These chips are not available commercially yet (as individual chips). We've had working chips in systems for about 3 years now, and we're perfectly willing to sell systems, but so far the decision has been that the way to make money is to sell systems, not chips. This may change, because the debate re-surfaces every 6 months or so. In fact, at present the only way to get our instruction set manuals and so forth is to wave a lot of money at us and sign a non-disclosure agreement. The only good published paper on the CPU architecture is : Berenbaum, Condry and Lu, "The Operating System and Language Spport Features of the BELLMAC-32 Microprocessor", Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, March 1982. The only good published paper on the MMU architecture is : Dietrich, Fuccio and Lu, "Architecture of a VLSI Map for BELLMAC-32 Microprocessor", Spring COMPCON 1983. Bill Dietrich ATT Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ houxj!wapd