Talk:NS32000/Archives/2014
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The Professor link mentioned at the bottom of the article seems highly suspect to me.
The wiki article mentions what I have heard in other contexts as well, that the NS32032 was simply unreliable, and generally detested for that reason. I do know that Atari DID consider using them for what would become the ST series, but gave up on that idea when NatSemi made it clear that they were not able to supply the numbers (low yields? related to unreliability?) nor were they willing to lower the price (another pointer to low yields).
The Sun article, on the other hand, claims the problem all along was that they aimed at the low-price-point instead of the high-performance-point. I find this difficult to believe given the Atari history, and the article's explaination of the lower prices later in its history seems rather plausible.
Of course the author goes on to claim that the Java Chip is a sure-fire winner. We all know how that turned out!
Maury 20:07, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
- (I'm probably not replying to this correctly...I'm rather new to Wikipedia)
- The NS32032/NS32016/NS32008 had serious issues, all well documented. As far as the Sun article, I added it only as on-topic from someone there (it is, and he was), one perspective of a complex issue (which is all it is), and interesting (I thought it was). I don't out of hand dismiss what he has to say about the market (indeed, since I was there as well, I don't myself disagree), and I further don't dismiss him about Java. A lot of really, really smart people got caught up in that one.