Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:54:18 -0600 From: Jules Richardson To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Whitechapel Computer Works MG-1 Message-ID: <547BBC3A.1090902@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed On 11/30/2014 05:29 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > The 16032 with graphics instructions addition (Bitblt) as the 32CG16 found > some use in laser printers, also--Canon and Panasonic used it on some of > their models. One of these days, I think I'd quite like to find one of the FPUs; I've got a few Acorn boards which use the 32016, but I've only ever seen one out in the wild with the floating point unit fitted - and I happen to have a copy of Acorn's FP test code which came via an ex-employee. To my knowledge no commercial software (such as there even was any for the hardware) ever used it, but it seems a shame to have the code and nothing to run it against. There was also a rumored port of Xenix to the hardware, but while I can confirm that it certainly existed as a project, I've never seen anything to suggest that it got beyond proof of concept. > I think that some avoided NSC when it came to MPUs--support wasn't what it > should have been, nor the marketing attention span. NSC was fine as a > second-source for many things, but there was a certain reluctance, I think, > in the industry to use them as the prime source. How did they compare in price with the m68k? Because that chip (pretty much) "just worked", so if the price was comparable then I can certainly see why it gained such acceptance and the ns32k line fell by the wayside. cheers Jules