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Interesting to read about the NS32k. The only thing I ever heard it used was the Ceres workstation of the ETH Zurich, the native platform of Wirth's Oberon OS.
by mhd 7y ago
Interesting to read about the NS32k. The only thing I ever heard it used was the Ceres workstation of the ETH Zurich, the native platform of Wirth's Oberon OS.
- cmrdporcupine 7y agoJack Tramiel's Atari Corp. evaluated the NS32k series for use in their Atari ST. They even built a prototype. But the processor had bugs and quality issues and they went with the 68k instead. I understand NS did fix their issues but by then it was too late and it never caught on outside of anything but embedded applications (apparently used in laser printers...)
- rjsw 7y agoI had a demo of the Whitechapel Computer Works MG-1 [1] workstation that used it. I knew of but never saw the Acorn systems with that CPU. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel_Computer_Works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel_Computer_Works
- dfawcus 7y agoAcorn Business Computer model 210 aka Acorn Cambridge Workstation (ACW/443) running panos. See http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/ACW.html http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/ACW.htm... or wikipedia.