kulick@qucis.UUCP (Jeff Kulick) (03/23/84)
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We have been following the discussion on the use of 16032's in teaching in
the late 80's and 90's.
We have been teaching our second year architecture/systems course on
16032's since Sept. 1983.
We installed 11 work-stations in Sept. (going to 24 in Sept. 84)
based on the 16032. Each work-station has a National Semiconductor
DB16000 processor board and a terminal. The processor board has
a 16032, a monitor rom for down-loading and debugging, 128k of ram,
and sockets for an ICU, MMU and FPU. For the Fall, we cross supported
them from our VAX 11/750 using the University of Toronto Euclid
software system.
Beginning in January of this year (84), we began installing the first
six UNIX (tm) systems based on this board. These systems have
70MB disk, a floppy, 1MB of memory, and run Berkeley 4.1 from HCR.
We will be moving 5 of the work-stations to each of these systems.
Two of the systems also have a frame buffer graphics system.
The work-stations cost about $1500 each, and the UNIX systems about
$15k each. For further information on these systems or our experience
with them you can contact:
Jeff Kulick or Dave Skillicorn
Computer Science Department.
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6
PS - We have just started working with the DB16000A board which can have
up-to 512kb of dual-ported on board ram. This should reduce the final
cost of a single user UNIX work-station by a factor of 2.