Heinz Wolter wrote: . My entanglement also dates from later in college, in my case well after most of the NS32k's general purpose CPU success ('89-90). I was noodling around with the notion of building something capable of running Unix and someone pointed me at the 32k as something VAX-like that could be obtained in DIP packaging (the 32008 or 32016, at least). I can see that others have already stepped up to this one, so since I can't speak from direct experience... --S.