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From: agnew@trwrc.UUCP (Robert A. Agnew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: DB1600 Development Board questions.
Keywords: DB16000, NS16032, 32016 Designer's Kit
Message-ID: <300@trwrc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Aug 88 23:03:59 GMT
References: <8113@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <5399@nsc.nsc.com>
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Organization: TRW-MEAD, San Diego, Ca.
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In article <5399@nsc.nsc.com>, daver@nsc.nsc.com (Dave Raulino) writes:
> I think that the decision to rename the NS16032 to the NS32016 was a 
> marketing decision based on the fact that the the internal architecture
> of the chip was full 32 bits.  It was felt that Series 16000 might imply
> a 16 bit architecture, whereas Series 32000 implies 32 bits.  As you may

I heard it on the grapevine that TI forced NS to change the name to 32000
before they would agree to second source it! Seems to make sense, but it 
gets very confusing when you talk to TI about 32000 series, they immediately
assume you mean 32020 etc.