NatSemi 32000 (Was: RE: Drop the Microsoft & OS Discussion!)

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Fri Oct 20 14:21:31 2000

> I vote to drop-kick this weeks discussion/useless rant
> on Windows and other OS's and other pokes to list members.
> Get back to you classic computers, VAXen, boxen,
> whatever-you-have-en, which this list is meant for!
>
> Anyone with me on this?

I've heard little discussion (since I joined earlier this year)
about the National Semiconductor 32000 processor line. IIRC,
some (but not all) of the chips in this family were true
3-address machines.

Anyone familiar with them? Do any significant assembly
language programming on one?

-dq
Received on Fri Oct 20 2000 - 14:21:31 BST