30 Nov
2014
30 Nov
'14
8:50 p.m.
On 11/30/2014 07:21 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 11/30/2014 04:54 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
I have no idea what the chip set cost new from NSC, but I
don't think it was
terribly expensive. Maybe a couple hundred $ for the
complete set.
I think the Logical Micro system was about $2500 for a
complete system in
a large IBM PC sized box, with hard drive, floppy, memory,
Multibus
backplane and power supply, dumb serial board and Genix OS.
Jon
How did they compare in price with the m68k?
Because that
chip (pretty
much) "just worked", so if the price was comparable then
I can certainly
see why it gained such acceptance and the ns32k line fell
by the wayside.
I never got to that point--the NSC chip was so late that
it wasn't even a candidate. I seem to recall some
discussion that the early 16032 chips were a little on the
flaky side, but that may have been rumor.