There was a project board that was featured in the
Micro Cornucopia around 1984, or so. It was an
ISA co-processor board, that ran UNIX; it used the PC
as an IO server. It was pretty slick. I really
wanted one, but sure couldn't afford it.
One of these actually showed up on e-bay a couple of
years back; naturally I was outbid.
There was another project, the PC32 which was a
32000 based SBC. Also pretty slick; they run NetBSD.
These are pretty rare as well.
All of the 32000's had an 'orthogonal' instruction
set; it was also the same IS for 8,16,and 32 bit
parts.
I have the users manual around here someplace . . .
Jeff
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:21:31 -0400 Douglas Quebbeman
<dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com> writes:
> > 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
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