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From: mason@tmsoft.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: ICM 3216
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Date: Sat, 28-Mar-87 09:20:09 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 28 09:20:09 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Mar-87 18:13:01 EST
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Reply-To: mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason)
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Keywords: ICM-3216 / ICM-332-1

This machine is an ICM3216.  They're great little boards.  The university
program is very good, as National applies some of their muscle to disk/tape
drive distributors to get you good prices.  There are lots of things coming
out (or already available) for the ICM series: the UofToronto 4.2 port already
discussed here; an 8 port serial board (with upgraded license for the extra
users); a graphics board from National; the ICM-332-1 mentioned here which is
supposed to be about 1.5 Mips (compared to .8 Mips or so for the ICM-3216).
(As I'm talking about performance I should point out a bug in the Dhrystone
data for ICM-3216 (out by a factor of 3 - unfortunately)).

  I have students who have bought the system.  One is adding a floppy disk &
controller directly to the Minibus to make a very cheap back-up medium.
Another is building a very nice graphics system using the TI 34010 chip
(connected to the CPU via the minibus which will run up to 6 Mbytes/sec in
this configuration).

  NS32xxx is FAR from dead.  Lots of people seem to be designing in 32xxx
rather than 680xx chips into new products (appliances and multi-computers).

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* Stay tuned to National next week (or so) for some VERY exciting news. *
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