15 Jan
2017
15 Jan
'17
11:05 a.m.
On 01/15/2017 11:23 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 1/14/17 7:20 PM, allison wrote:
I know but effectively they have been few and limited, and long
overdue. 68K and 80186 and 286 were
more widely accepted till the MIPS V ARM era. NSC was not known for
CPUs as a widely accepted
source as they tended to be either odd like the SC/MP series or sole
source (NSC800). They
were good ideas people but the designs they cooked were not that great.
If they had been
allowed to do the PDP-11 or VAX architecture which was the original plan
maybe.
The 80s had cooked out a lot of very interesting CPUs but many of the
sources were not dominant,
sole sourced or too obscure.
Allison
If the 32016 had a second generation
It
had several generations. The 32532 saw some use in laser printers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS320xx