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| 0 = [[NORD-1]] was probably the first minicomputer to have memory paging as a standard option, and the first machine to have floating-point instructions standard. | | 0 = [[NORD-1]] was probably the first minicomputer to have memory paging as a standard option, and the first machine to have floating-point instructions standard. | ||
| 1 = [[NORD-5]], was one of the world's first 32-bit | | 1 = [[NORD-5]], was one of the world's first 32-bit minicomputers - beating the VAX by 6 years. | ||
| 2 = [[Norsk Data]] employed over 4,500 people in 1987, the second largest company by stock value in Norway. | | 2 = [[Norsk Data]] employed over 4,500 people in 1987, the second largest company by stock value in Norway. | ||
| 3 = [[ND-500]] and [[ND-5000 family]] of systems uses a [[ND-100 CPU|ND-100]]/[[ND-110 CPU|ND-110]]/[[ND-120 CPU]] as I/O processor. | | 3 = [[ND-500]] and [[ND-5000 family]] of systems uses a [[ND-100 CPU|ND-100]]/[[ND-110 CPU|ND-110]]/[[ND-120 CPU]] as I/O processor. | ||
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| 5 = The first [[NORD-1]] installed was an anti-collision system aboard the ship M/S Taimyr. | | 5 = The first [[NORD-1]] installed was an anti-collision system aboard the ship M/S Taimyr. | ||
| 6 = [[NORD-1]] serial number 28 was the first computerized online power station control in the world. | | 6 = [[NORD-1]] serial number 28 was the first computerized online power station control in the world. | ||
| 7 = [[SINTRAN III]] didn't have a year 2000 problem, but in 2014 its 6 bit counter for the year overflowed and went back to 1950. In 1982 some programs with signed arithmetics had a problem, most notably some [[NOTIS]] programs. | |||
| 8 = A 16 kword (32 kbyte) core memory for the [[NORD-1]] cost 160.000 NOK in 1970. | |||
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