88000 machines

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwightk.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Wed Jun 12 17:52:53 2002

Hi
 I have a machine with a Z8000 that is working.
It is the Olivetti M20. You should be able to find these
in Europe. They were many sold in Italy and Germany.
It uses a OS made by Olivetti called PCOS. There are
a few 32032's around. I also have a couple of the
National modules ( I think they were called RA2000 )
that have the NSC800 processor in them ( similar to the Z80 ).
These were designed to stack and have a Forth built in.
There was a module made by Fairchild that has a RISC processor
on it that I have someplace as well. I'm not sure if this
one ever made it to production. I think I even have some
manuals for it as well.
 Not many of the 432's made it out of Intel. I'm not surprised
that these are rare. There was also a Z80000 someplace as I recall.
I guess there are a lot of holes in your collection :-(
Dwight


On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, John Honniball wrote:

>
> All this mention of Motorola's 88000 RISC chip has made me wonder
> what machines were built around it. Did Data General make anything
> with it? Was there a Motorola development system?
>
> One of my collecting goals is to acquire an example of each of
> the microprocessor acrhitectures. Now 6502, 8080, 6809, 68000,
> and so on are easy. What about the Z8000? The 32032 (I do have
> a Whitechapel)? The 88000? The iAPX432?
>
> --
> John Honniball
> coredump_at_gifford.co.uk
>
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