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From: chongo@amdahl.amdahl.com (Landon Curt Noll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: Where can I get parts?
Message-ID: <16264@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 18:18:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdahl.16264
Posted: Thu Oct 15 18:18:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 09:50:53 EDT
References: <229@trwrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: chongo@namei (Landon Curt Noll)
Organization: Positron
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In article <229@trwrc.UUCP> agnew@trwrc.UUCP (R.A. Agnew) writes:
 >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 ??)

It is possible for someone to forward this person's letter to some higher-ups
at National?  Comments like these can be helpful if certain peole are made
aware of them and make some effort to try and correct the situation.

Now for the STD disclaimer:  No, I'm not National bashing, I just happened
to agree with everything this person said.  I too have sunk many kilobucks
into hardware with 32000 parts.  I ran into similar problems, and i'd love
to see them fixed.

chongo <> ./\oo/\.
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