ND-500: Difference between revisions
(Adding "stub") |
(Added price information and a reference) |
||
| Line 22: | Line 22: | ||
===Rallar=== | ===Rallar=== | ||
Sold as the '''ND-5830''' and '''ND-5850'''. The Rallar processor consisted of two main VLSI gate arrays, '''KUSK''' and '''GAMP''' - meaning "Jockey" and "Horse", respectively. | Sold as the '''ND-5830''' and '''ND-5850'''. The Rallar processor consisted of two main VLSI gate arrays, '''KUSK''' and '''GAMP''' - meaning "Jockey" and "Horse", respectively. | ||
==Cost== | |||
The price of the smallest ND-500 system in 1981 was 400.000 German mark.<ref>[http://www.computerwoche.de/heftarchiv/1981/14/1185732/ Norsk Data Deutschland GmbH: Nur ein Schritt von 16 auf 32 Bit, Computerwoche 14/1981]</ref> | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
<references/> | |||
*{{OriginWP-EN|ND-500|3 November 2008}} | *{{OriginWP-EN|ND-500|3 November 2008}} | ||
Revision as of 09:25, 19 February 2009
The ND-500 is a 32-bit superminicomputer delivered in 1981 by Norsk Data. It relied on a ND-100 to do housekeeping tasks and run the operating system, SINTRAN III.
A configuration could feature up to four ND-500 CPUs, in a shared-memory configuration.
Hardware implementations
The ND-500 architecture lived through four distinct implementations. Each implementation was sold under a variety of different model numbers.
ND also sold multiprocessor configurations, naming them ND-580/n and an ND-590n, where n represented the number of CPUs in a given configuration, 2, 3, or 4.
ND-500/1
Sold as the ND-500, ND-520, ND-540, and ND-560.
ND-500/2
Sold as the ND-570, ND-570/CX, and the ND-570/ACX.
ND-505
A 31-bit version of the ND-500 machine. Pin 27 was snipped on the backplane, removing its status as a superminicomputer, allowing it to legally pass through the CoCom embargo. Cocom (Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls) was an embargo on Western exports to East Bloc countries during the Cold War.[citation needed]
Samson
Sold as the ND-5200, ND-5400, ND-5500, ND-5700, and ND-5800. The ND-120 CPU line, which constituted the ND-100 side of most ND-5000 computers, was named Delilah. As the 5000 line progressed in speed, the dual-arch ND-100/500 configuration increasingly became bottlenecked by all I/O having to go through the ND-100.
Rallar
Sold as the ND-5830 and ND-5850. The Rallar processor consisted of two main VLSI gate arrays, KUSK and GAMP - meaning "Jockey" and "Horse", respectively.
Cost
The price of the smallest ND-500 system in 1981 was 400.000 German mark.[1]
Sources
- This article was originally a copy of the English Wikipedia article ND-500 in 3 November 2008.
 |
This article is a stub. You can improve NDWiki by expanding it. |