Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-unix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!rabbit
From: rabbit@psivax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: ICM 3216
Message-ID: <1587@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Mar-87 16:23:44 EST
Article-I.D.: psivax.1587
Posted: Wed Mar 25 16:23:44 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Mar-87 01:51:49 EST
References: <1775@a.cs.okstate.edu> <590@csun.UUCP>
Sender: news@psivax.UUCP
Reply-To: rabbit@psivax.UUCP (Joe Kwan)
Distribution: world
Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
Lines: 51
Keywords: ICM-3216 / ICM-332-1

In article <590@csun.UUCP> aeusesef@csun.UUCP (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>In article <1775@a.cs.okstate.edu>, rjs@a.cs.okstate.edu (Roland Stolfa) writes:
>> ...  It was available to colleges and universities
>> for about $1125 and came with
>> 
>> 	1 M memory
>> 	4 RS-232 ports
>> 	1 Centronix port
>> 	a SCSI port (for hard disk and tape backup system)
>> 	a "plastic wrapper" Sys 5 V 2 Unix distribution

Plus a Z-80 I/O processor that handles the DMA stuff on the SCSI bus.
The ICM-3216 also comes with a 10mhz 32016 (32 bit processor, 16 bit
data bus), FPU, TCU, ICU and MMU (floating point, timing control,
interrupt control and memory manager units) chips.  You can expand
memory to 8 megabytes of RAM and virtual memory is supported.  The
entire computer is on a single cpu board measuring roughly 9" x 11".
Memory is on separate, identically sized, boards.  No "industry
standard" bus is used, but rather, NSC's own "MiniBus" (a 16 bit bus).

UoT recently announced their Berkeley 4.2 Unix port to the ICM-3216.

The ICM-332-1 ("-1" I guess means their first ICM-332 product; more to
follow) contains a 10mhz 32332 (NSC's higher performance full 32 bit
processor; faster than the 32032), the same FPU, TCU, ICU and MMU as
the ICM-3216, a 32016 I/O Processor (IOP) with it's own 512k of RAM, 4
serial ports, 1 parallel printer port, a high speed 32/16-bit DMA
"Mover" to/from system memory, SCSI port, clock/calendar and Genix V.3
(NSC's version of System V Release 3).

The ICM-332 comes with 2 meg of RAM expandable to 14 meg.  The ICM-332
contains a 32 bit memory bus (MaxiBus) while the IOP has both (MiniBus
for interfacing other I/O controllers; MaxiBus for talking to the 332).

The product description I have says that Genix V.3 supports:
demand-paged virtual memory, and offers job control, file and record
locking and streams.  C and Fortran 77 compilers and the 32000
assembler are also included.

Note the ICM-332-1 does not use NSC's newer FPU, MMU etc chips.
Future ICM-332's probably will though (requiring a totally new
design).

Educational univ prices: CPU board $1995, IOP (required) $1195, 6 meg
RAM board $1355.

-- 
Joe Kwan
Systems Analyst
Pacesetter Systems, Inc.
uucp: {csun, scgvaxd, hoptoad, sdcrdcf, ihnp4}!psivax!rabbit