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^^^^^ Do you mean a National Semi 32000 class cpu? Kewl. Boy, those were hot, hot, hot when they hit the market in the early 80's. National did everything right on this one: Full object code compatibility between the 8,16 and 32 bit versions of the device; truly orthogonal instruction set, and so on. Mondo cool. It also was THE FIRST true 32-bit cpu on the market (according to an EDN magazine article). Did I say National did everything right? Yes. Well, depends on how you look at it. You couldn't run dos or CP/M on it. This, I suppose, was it's fatal 'flaw' (although I am of the opinion that that such compatibility would be a major DEFECT, but never mind). That and National didn't market the device very well, although it was used in alot of embedded applications. I wonder how much further it would have gone, had the free Unices we have today been available back then . . . . Zane, I have the NS-32000 programmers guide somewhere in my library if you're interested. <snip> Jeff