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From: grenley@nsc.nsc.com (George Grenley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: Where is everyone???
Message-ID: <7219@nsc.nsc.com>
Date: 22 Oct 88 01:38:55 GMT
References: <2582@sultra.UUCP> <447@unocss.UUCP>
Reply-To: grenley@nsc.nsc.com.UUCP (George Grenley)
Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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In article <447@unocss.UUCP> mlewis@unocss.UUCP (Marcus S. Lewis) writes:


>There exists a group of individuals who are possibly somewhat less than
>overjoyed at the dominance of both the Intel and Motorola processors, and
>yearn for the return of the true hacker spirit.  In keeping with this odd
>philosophy, we have decided to write an OS from scratch to facilitate the
>spread of the NSC32 family processors.  We all (not sure how many there are)
>either have or or are trying to get "working" NSC processors.  We could 
>probably use some high-powered help.  Our fearless leader will soon have
>a copy of GCC 1.28 (as soon as I mail it to him), and we have at least two
>other C compilers and at least two cross-assemblers. 
>	System #1 is "Bare Metal", sort of a CP/M clone, and does
>a few things.  REAL (Real CPU, Real memory, Real program) is to be a
>multitasking system, hopefully suitable for embedded systems, as well as 
>a usable, non-licensable FREE OS, available in source form for the asking,
>similar to the GNU project, though nowhere near so grand in scope.

This is good news.  For those of you who are associated with Universities,
we have, among other things 532 designer kits (a good way to get a 532 chip),
and also VME332 boards - 15 mhz 332 cluster, good for realtime or unix.
These items can be bought very inexpensively (but not free).

Unfortunately, 332 chipsets and 532 chips at "student" prices are pretty
hard to come by.  If I can find one I'll let you know.

George Grenley