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From: rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: ns32000 processor series
Message-ID: <288@oxtrap.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Aug-87 16:55:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 11 16:55:50 1987
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In article <4532@nsc.nsc.com> grenley@nsc.UUCP (George Grenley) writes:
>In article <777@PSUECLB> bcd@psueclb.BITNET writes:
>>could someone please fill me in the on 32000 processors available these
>>days (ie: what features they have, how fast are they etc.)  
>
>Sure.  We make: ...
>
>32032 - Mainstay of the line.  10 mhz operation, basic 1 MIP machine.
>

First, if a 32032 is a 1 mip machine then a 68020 @ 16Mhz is about
2.8.  Each of our sequent processors, (we have 6), feels like about .7
Mips.

Second, it really is an elegant architecture.  Now if it just ran at
30 Mhz....

rich.