Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!sri-spam!sri-unix!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!ubc-vision!van-bc!sl From: sl@van-bc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: NS32032 and UNIX Message-ID: <10@van-bc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Nov-86 01:31:04 EST Article-I.D.: van-bc.10 Posted: Tue Nov 4 01:31:04 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Nov-86 08:48:39 EST References: <4936@brl-smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) Organization: Public Access Unix, Vancouver, BC. Lines: 69 In article <4936@brl-smoke.ARPA> rbj@ICST-CMR.arpa writes: > > I am looking for any information about any systems that run UNIX(tm) > on a National Semiconductor NS32032 processor. > National Semiconductor supports System V Release 2 & Release 3, under a joint agreement with AT&T to do so for the NS32000 series. One example of this is available directly from NSC or any distributor of their products (Hamilton Avnet) in the ICM 3216 product line and the ICM 3232 product line. Briefly: ICM 3216 10 Mhz 32016 CPU, MPU, FPU 4 MB of memory two serial ports with modem control two serial ports without modem control one parallel port for Centronics style printer SCSI port System V Release 2, with Paged Virtual Memory System $3395 ($1495 for educational institutions) The above is implemented on two boards about 10"x11" requiring +5, +12, -12 etc. You must add > 40MB SCSI compatible hard disk (~$2000), SCSI compatible 9 track cartridge (~$1000), case and PS (~$400 - IBM PC AT clone case works well). ICM 3232 10 Mhz 32332 CPU, MPU, FPU, 2MB of memory 32016 CPU, .5 MB of memory four serial ports one parallel port SCSI port System V Release 3, Page Virtual Memory System additional memory boards have 6MB $UNKOWN, product to be available early '87 Also available is an eight port serial card with a 32016 and .5MB of memory. I used an ICM 3216 for about four months this summer. Subjectively speaking it felt AT LEAST twice as fast as the 10 Mhz Callan 68010 system I'm typing this on. This was probably due to the nice job NSC did on the Paged Virtual Memory. Most benchmarks indicate that 68010 is slightly fast than a 32016 at the same clock speed. The System V port is very generic. NSC apparantly doesn't feel the need to differentiate their port from standard System V from AT&T. The only problem I had was the lack of nroff due to the unbundling process that AT&T is following. Inside reports from the Portland lab where the boards are being developed indicate that the new ICM 3232 product will be about twice as fast as the ICM 3216. In general if you don't mind putting this together you probably can't find a much better price / performance ratio with any of the current products on the market. For the less intrepid there are some OEM's packaging the boards and charging a lot more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stuart Lynne Public Access Un*x - Vancouver BC UUCP: ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vi!van-bc!sl Mail: 225B Evergreen Dr., Port Moody, BC, Canada, V3H 1S1 Phone: 604-937-7532