New subject: Z8000 processor Olivetti M20

12 Jun 2002

Hi
 I have a machine with a Z8000 that is working.
It is the Olivetti M20. You should be able to find these
in Europe. They were many sold in Italy and Germany.
It uses a OS made by Olivetti called PCOS. There are
a few 32032's around. I also have a couple of the
National modules ( I think they were called RA2000 )
that have the NSC800 processor in them ( similar to the Z80 ).
These were designed to stack and have a Forth built in.
There was a module made by Fairchild that has a RISC processor
on it that I have someplace as well. I'm not sure if this
one ever made it to production. I think I even have some
manuals for it as well.
 Not many of the 432's made it out of Intel. I'm not surprised
that these are rare. There was also a Z80000 someplace as I recall.
I guess there are a lot of holes in your collection :-(
Dwight

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, John Honniball wrote:

...

 All this mention of Motorola's 88000 RISC chip has made me wonder
 what machines were built around it.  Did Data General make anything
 with it?  Was there a Motorola development system?

 One of my collecting goals is to acquire an example of each of
 the microprocessor acrhitectures.  Now 6502, 8080, 6809, 68000,
 and so on are easy.  What about the Z8000?  The 32032 (I do have
 a Whitechapel)?  The 88000?  The iAPX432?

 --
 John Honniball
 coredump(a)gifford.co.uk

88000 machines