21 Apr
2016
21 Apr
'16
6:24 a.m.
On 21 April 2016 at 08:07, Raymond Wiker <rwiker at gmail.com> wrote:
I was a bit surprised to see that it used 2901 with a
date code of 1985 -
the 2901 was introduced 10 years before.
In the late 1970s, Norsk Data implemented the ND10 architecture with the
2901. It was thought that this would give a modest uplift over the previous
generation, and the planned name was ND10S. It turned out to be so fast
that Norsk Data gave it the name ND100 instead :-)
Almost :-)
The NORD-10/S was a NORD-10 plus caching and paging, while the
bitsliced version was to be called NORD-10/M (M for 'micro'), and was
so fast that it was renamed NORD-100, which was shortened to ND-100
later that same year (1978 - but the machine itself was released in
1979, so it was always sold as just ND-100).
-Tor