Tom StepletonDec 26, 2023
Decided to fire up the Whitechapel, so for the next few hours mg-1.uk will be served (slowly) by the eponymous, 37-year-old MG-1, East London's finest #ns32k -powered graphical workstation. (There is no new content.)
Whitechapel Waiting Room

Ed SSep 2, 2023

Mmm, feeling good - fixed a bug in a 1986 #Basic interpreter. One byte fix... one bit really.

#Acorn 's Basic IV for 32000, turns out USR was mis-coded, so with a bit of help from a friend, found the bad code and poked it into a better state.

10 REM PATCH BASIC CALL/USR
20 IF ?&563D=&67 THEN ?&563D=&E7

#ns32k #retroComputing

Show threadEd SDec 21, 2021

"Finally, there's a 32-bit microprocessor that gives you any UNIX version you want, and all the development tools you need."

Advert from National Semiconductor ("We're doing it") for the Series 32000. ("The SuperMini on a Chip.")

"the only 32-bit family complete with memory management, floating point, timing, interrupt and DMA"

Via same blog post as before, also in Unix World here:
https://archive.org/details/Unix_World_Vol02_05.pdf/page/n9/mode/2up

(oops, adding #retrocomputing )

#ns32k #natsemi #ns16000 #genix

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Ed SDec 21, 2021

(Advert from 1985)
"""
Industry experts hail it as the “best UNIX micro!’ Now GENIX is here. GENIX has been elegantly tailored to optimize the NS 16000 architecture. And NS 16000 system designers have an operating system that’s a custom fit.
"""

via
https://jameltayeb.com/2021/12/20/nix

#ns32k #natsemi #ns16000 #genix

*NIX – Jamel Tayeb

Two years ago, I started the Ads & Other Gems collection. Two years later, I didn’t post under this section a single time. Shame on me! And it’s not by lack of material. Indeed, over a decade or so, I curated 41,286 digital scans of magazines (~2.13TB), essentially dedicated to computers. That’s a lot of…

Ed SJan 3, 2019

As a computer, @Canageek, the Beeb was more powerful than most, with a 2MHz 6502. As a games machine, a little less so, because of having no sprites and only a very ordinary sound chip.

Because it had the second processor idea built in, it could act as front end to a larger faster CPU. Could be a 4MHz 6502 with 64k, or a 6MHz Z80, or an x86 with 512k, or a 32 bit #ns32k with FPU.

See here:
https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14211
"Acorn's Second Processors and the Tube - what, and why"
@craigmaloney @Jo

Acorn's Second Processors and the Tube - what, and why - stardot.org.uk