7 Aug
2006
7 Aug
'06
12:37 p.m.
On 8/7/2006 at 11:46 AM CRC wrote:
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...).
IIRC, the PACE, while being based on the same architectural model as the
Nova, had many substantial differences. There was another choice,
Fairchild, with the 9440, but I never got further than "someone will call
you, someday". I gathered that they didn't want to be bothered with
something as mundane as sales.
Cheers,
Chuck