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From: pja@usl.UUCP (Pete Alleman)
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Subject: National's ICM-3216 Board Set
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Date: Fri, 25-Apr-86 10:32:05 EDT
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Does anyone have any experience with National's ICM-3216 boards??

For those who are not familiar with this product:
The set consists of two boards, the first has the processor, 4 rs232 ports,
a parallel interface, and a SCSI interface.
The processor is a 10Mhz 32016 with MMU, FPU, TCU, and ICU.
The second board has the memory.  Two memory boards are available, 1Mb or 4Mb.
Both memory boards use 150ns DRAM for operation with no wait states.

On the software side, National offers their validated port of
UNIX System V Release 2.0.  This port has implemented demand paged 
virtual memory.

Overall, it appears to be an impressive system with a very reasonable price tag.
The processor with 4Mb of ram and UNIX will run about $3,300.  Add a SCSI
disk drive and a power supply and you have a powerful 4 user UNIX system.

I am looking for anyone who has used these boards and put a system together.

Pete Alleman
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