What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

Ken Seefried seefriek at gmail.com
Mon Jan 16 19:51:47 CST 2017


From: allison <ajp166 at verizon.net>
>
>The 32016 was not clocked very fast nor did it have any pipelines to
>speak of.

True.  And lots of interesting bugs; some show-stoppers in early steppings.

>If the 32016 had a second generation, some tweaks and faster process it
>might have had hope but like 68k and Z8000 it was good idea but late.

It had 2 additional generations of general purpose procs (32332 &
32532) and a number of embedded iterations (ns32gc, ns32fx).  But,
yeah, too late relative to to i8086.

KJ


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