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From: martin@iris.ucdavis.edu (Bruce K. Martin Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: NS32000 Processor
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Date: Mon, 8-Jun-87 21:11:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  8 21:11:54 1987
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Summary: From the horse's mouth...

In article <642@umnd-cs.D.UMN.EDU> rhealey@ub.UUCP (Rob Healey) writes:
>
>	Great blurb on the 32k, why'd you leave us big endder's out tho?
>	32032's power two different parallel processing powerhouses:
>
>	Encore Mutimax series
>	Sequent  (I think)
>
>	Wonder why the 32k was chosen to be the base unit in multi processor
>	computer's? Probably because the other's couldn't handle the job!
>

According to a talk I attended last week by Dr. Chen of Encore (Director
of Software R&D -- if memory serves), one of the main reasons that the
NS32K series was choosen was the great instruction set (Test and Set
mentioned explicitly).

>
>			-Rob Healey
>
>			rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu


		...bruce

ps. We have a great name for our Encore...  Hydra   :-)

Bruce K. Martin	    martin@iris.ucdavis.edu