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From: agnew@trwrc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: Where can I get parts?
Message-ID: <229@trwrc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 21:01:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  1 21:01:33 1987
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In article <5980002@hpccc.HP.COM> culberts@hpccc.HP.COM (Bruce Culbertson) writes:
>National, with their 32000 Designer Kit, has made it easy and inexpensive
>for experimenters to get 6 MHz 32000 chip sets (CPU, MMU, FPU, ICU and TCU).
>Faster parts, and other members of the 32000 family, seem hard to get in
>small quantities.  For example, I would like a 10 MHz 32016 set and a
>10 MHz NS32203 DMA controller.  All the distributors I called quoted
>a six week delivery and a minimum quantity of 8 per part.
>
I've had the same bad experience. Many distributors are dropping
national because of their lack of popularity, especially in light
of the 80386. I didn't even think the 32203 was real yet! Despite
the fact that National designed the best processor line, it is doing
very poorly. National has not helped this situation much. The last
several designers kits that I bought for building the PD32 had
bad parts in them ( 32201's won't run at 6 Mhz. etc.). The fact
that the NS32032 and NS32082 won't run Unix until mask revision "M"
or so doesn't help much! I wish that I didn't have thousands of $ of my
own money and 6 years of my life invested in NS stuff so that I could
switch to 80386's.  It may not be the best processor, but at least one
can find affordable Unix software and support for it. Motorola and Intel
seem to encourage we engineers to experiment, while National seems to
treat us like second class citizens who don't deserve to use state of the
art parts.  (You out there National ??)
Anyone know where I can buy a NS32C032-15 and NS32C201-15 so that I might
be able to get another few months out of my DSI-32?