ND-500
The ND-500 was a 32-bit superminicomputer delivered in 1981 by Norsk Data. 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.
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.
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.
Podcasts:
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by Qntal
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by Mavis Staples
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by Brad Thomlinson
Noit Et Dia
by: Qntal[Lyrics: Cantigas de Santa Maria]
Por que nos ajamos sempre, noit e dia,
dela remenbranca,
en Domas achamos que Santa Maria
fez gran demonstranca
En esta cidade, que vos ei ja dita,
ouv'y hua dona de mui santa vida,
mui fazedor d'algu'e de todo mal quita,
rica a mui nobre e de ben comprida.
mas, por que sabiamos como non queria
do mundo gabanca,
como fez digamos hun' albergaria,
u fillou moranca.
E ali morand'e muito ben fazendo
a toda-las gentes que per y passavan,
vo y un monge, segund'eu aprendo,
que pousou con ela, com outros pousavan.
diss'ela: 'oucamos u tedes via,
se ides a Franca.'
diss'el: 'mas cuidamos dereit'a Suria,
log'ir sen tardanza.'
Log' enton a dona, chorando dos ollos
muito lle rogava que per y tornasse,
des que el ouvesse fito-los gollos
ant'o San Sepulcro e en el beijasse.
'e mais vos rogamos que, sse vos prazia
ha semellanca
que dala vejamos da que sempre guia
os seus sen erranca.'
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