Date   : Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:44:44 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Adding copro support to BeebEm

Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
>>Message-ID: <4368E499.5060701@...>
> 
>  
> Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...> wrote:
> 
>>Other than Whitechapel, Tektronix are the only other people I can think
>>of who had a 32016-based Unix out there. It never was a very popular
>>chip; makes me wonder where Acorn might have gone with the business
>>computer range if they'd gone for the 68000 instead...
> 
>  
> After extensive searching the only other system I could find that
> used a 32016 was the Emulator III polyphonic digital sampling
> keyboard. See http://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/32016/e3tech.htm

I since had hazy memory of one other, possibly a Sequent - and with a 
bit of googling found the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS320xx

It doesn't mention the ACW of course, nor the Tektronix that used the 
chip (a Tek 4132 according to google)

> Interestingly, it is a twin processor system that uses a 6502 for
> certain I/O functions :)

Heh. The Sequent sounds interesting too, being a multiprocessor 32016 box...

cheers

Jules