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From: roger@nsc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: the NS32532
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Date: Tue, 14-Apr-87 00:46:56 EST
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In article <6237@amdahl.UUCP>, chongo@amdahl.UUCP (Landon Curt Noll) writes:

> This demo system may the tour rounds.  My Microterm terminal I used at work
> had its delivery to my desk delayed for several weeks because it was the 
> terminal used with the 32332.  The demo ran so long and was run so much that 
> the tower of Hanoi was burned into the phosphor of the screen.  This rigged 
> demo was not used more than once.

I humbly stand corrected.  You are correct with one respect.  The demo was used 
twice---- so sorry.  The second usage was for exactly the same purpose
at a meeting to introduce the 32332 in Europe.  It went without your
terminal so I can't account for that. How do I know that?  Well you
see your terminal at the time was not convertable to 220 volts.  Yes
your terminal was used alot in checking out the set-up.

>  
> I am a stockholder.  (I even cast my vote for Mike Puckett as I recall :-})
> 

Yes, age is creeping up on me, I did make one error, so I may be wrong 
again, but as best as I can remember there weren't any adjustments to
the vote tally at the meeting which means you must have mailed in your
proxy.  In any case, casting a vote for some else is slightly ---- should
I say ------ well hard to do unless that other person has signed over
his stock to you for voting purposes. If that is the case ---- fine.

> How many systems use the 32332?  Where can I evaluate (other than a VR32
> for reasons that I will go into via Email if you care to ask) such a system?
> (assuming it is in the price/performance range I am looking for)

The following people have systems in a demonstrable fashion.  All are just
going into production.  Design on these projects all started last summer
not due to any CPU related issues but because that was when we had 
our FIRST (and only ) rev of the new 32382 MMU

		       Encore, Opus, Seimens,
		       Definicon,Whitechappel
		       and our own ISG(ie: Portland

 I selected the above since they all run some derivitive of *nix
 all quite nice.  Oh by the way, Seimens shipped more series32000
 Unix boxes over the last 9 months than your favorite workstation
 supplier, so did Opus.  Encore is makeing good inroads in providing
 more computes than your basic VAX at a very very attractive price.

			Both Encore and ISG were
			at Uniforum as best as 
                        I can remember.

Why do so many people like the 68020????? Certainly not because of
their MMU.

Enough on that, it's too bad you have choosen to discuss only the
past with little interest to the 32532 which is what brought up
the above issues.

     ---- Roger