On 21 April 2016 at 08:07, Raymond Wiker <[email protected]> wrote: > I was a bit surprised to see that it used 2901 with a date code of 1985 - > the 2901 was introduced 10 years before. > > In the late 1970s, Norsk Data implemented the ND10 architecture with the > 2901. It was thought that this would give a modest uplift over the previous > generation, and the planned name was ND10S. It turned out to be so fast > that Norsk Data gave it the name ND100 instead :-)
Almost :-) The NORD-10/S was a NORD-10 plus caching and paging, while the bitsliced version was to be called NORD-10/M (M for 'micro'), and was so fast that it was renamed NORD-100, which was shortened to ND-100 later that same year (1978 - but the machine itself was released in 1979, so it was always sold as just ND-100). -Tor
