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From: paul@vixie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: NS32000
Message-ID: <660@vixie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Jun-87 21:31:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: vixie.660
Posted: Sun Jun 14 21:31:54 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Jun-87 01:53:32 EDT
References: <360@root44.co.uk>
Reply-To: paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq)
Organization: Vixie Enterprises, San Francisco
Lines: 38
Keywords: compupro configuration

In article <360@root44.co.uk> njh@root.co.uk (Nigel Horne) writes:
>
>>Compupro produced an S-100 board known as the CPU-32016,  using a 
>>32016  processor.   It has been stated that these boards  can  go 
>>10MHz.

...although the boards come (came) with 320xx-6 parts (6 MHz max) and a 6-MHz
crystal.  The engineering people at Compupro (now Viasyn) told me that a new
CPM, MMU, TCU, FPU, ICU, and crystal would make the board go 10-MHz -- all the
support circuitry is fast enough.

>And it runs Unix. I know - 'cos we ported it for them, but
>we haven't heard anything from them for a long time - we think they
>aren't around any more.

This amazes and disgusts me.  I'm sure the port is solid, and I would very
much like to purchase it -- and I asked the Compupro people (sales, engin.,
even George himself at a swap meet) about UNIX for the board, and they said
"what's that?".

For the record, I would **still** like to buy a UNIX for the thing.  I have
a pretty hefty system here, with about 1.5Mb of RAM and all the IO I could
ever want -- but no software.  I have illusions about cobbling up something
from scratch, but the machine is going to get pretty old and cold before
that happens.

To the people who mentioned MINIX: this would be acceptable, though BSD would
be better.  MINIX or a GCC back-end for the 32016 would really make me smile!
Let me (or the net, or both) know what's available in this area.

To other Compupro/Viasyn CPU-32016 owners (or Viasyn if you're on the net):
what are you all doing with your cards?  Viasyn sells (sold?) a FORTH for the
thing, but I'm just not interested in that.  What else is out there?
-- 
Paul A Vixie Esq
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