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A configuration could feature up to four ND-500 CPUs, in a shared-memory configuration. |
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==Hardware implementations== |
==Hardware implementations== |
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Revision as of 19:49, 19 November 2006
The ND-500 was a 32-bit superminicomputer delivered in 1981. It relied on a ND-100 to do housekeeping tasks and run the OS, 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.
Samson
Sold as the ND-5200, ND-5400, ND-5500, ND-5700, and ND-5800.
Rallar
Sold as the ND-5830 and ND-5850.