Talk:NS32000/Archives/2011

HP FOCUS
It turns out that HP's FOCUS CPU was a fully 32-bit single-chip processor, and was released in 1982, before the release of the 32032 in 1984. If you consider a 32-bit CPU to be one with an external 32-bit data bus (which seems to be the commonly accepted definition), then HP FOCUS seems to have got there first. I tried, but I couldn't see how to work this into the article. --StuartBrady (Talk) 11:33, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

The FOCUS was predated by the BELLMAC-32A from AT&T Bell Labs (and post-divestiture, from Western Electric). The first BELLMAC-32A engineering samples were produced in 1980. --Brouhaha 21:11, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Broken Link
I have removed the following text from the article, because the link is broken:


 * http://www.sun.com/microelectronics/picoJava/pioneers/vol2/professor.html has an interesting perspective on why the later 32000 series processors failed from an insider.

Before reposting this link, or a variant, we should ensure that the address is correct. --User:Wknight8111 (WB:Whiteknight) 04:14, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

It's still available at archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20060312110509/http://www.sun.com/microelectronics/picoJava/pioneers/vol2/professor.html 1111mol (talk) 23:38, 14 January 2010 (UTC)