ND-500

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A typical large ND-500 configuration.
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A typical large ND-500 configuration.

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.

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[edit] 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.

[edit] ND-500/1

Sold as the ND-500, ND-520, ND-540, and ND-560.

[edit] ND-500/2

Sold as the ND-570, ND-570/CX, and the ND-570/ACX.

[edit] Samson

Sold as the ND-5200, ND-5400, ND-5500, ND-5700, and ND-5800.

[edit] Rallar

Sold as the ND-5830 and ND-5850.