On 01/15/2017 11:23 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > > On 1/14/17 7:20 PM, allison wrote: > >> If the 32016 had a second generation > It had several generations. The 32532 saw some use in laser printers. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS320xx > > > I know but effectively they have been few and limited, and long overdue. 68K and 80186 and 286 were more widely accepted till the MIPS V ARM era. NSC was not known for CPUs as a widely accepted source as they tended to be either odd like the SC/MP series or sole source (NSC800). They were good ideas people but the designs they cooked were not that great. If they had been allowed to do the PDP-11 or VAX architecture which was the original plan maybe.
The 80s had cooked out a lot of very interesting CPUs but many of the sources were not dominant, sole sourced or too obscure. Allison
