7 Aug
2006
7 Aug
'06
10:58 a.m.
FWIW I have a NS Pacer computer here. I've never tried to fire it up.
Joe
At 11:46 AM 8/7/06 -0700, you wrote:
On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:16:34 -0700, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
wrote:
I used to have a CPU S100 board that I built for the National
PACE. That
CPU was a catastrophe. So slow and with very little NS support.
Given
its very early introduction, it could have been a comer had NS
taken any
interest in it. But at the time, NS was pushing the SC/MP and
signing
second-sourcing deals.
IIRC what made the NS PACE such a screaming shame was that it was a
clone of the Data General Nova 1200. The thought of being able to gen
up code on my lab system and stuff it into this little chip just made
me drool up until I discovered that, fearing the wrath of DG, they
split the program counter. That made it a 256 word paged machine
rendering all the code generation facilities useless. It was a while
before DG came out with a chip set that was priced out of sight
(another company which wouldn't share...).
CRC