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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
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Posted: Tue Oct 23 09:22:09 1984
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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
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