Fairchild 944x

[Chuck Guzis]

On 4 Nov 2008 at 5:51, Robert Borsuk wrote:

> Don't know if you guys found this but I did find one computer
reference.
> 
> http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=196
> 
> and the data sheet on bit savers for the chips(thank you Al).

1983?  I was trying to get the attention of the Fairchild sales 
department around 1978.  You'd have thought with DG not selling the 
MicroNova CPU to outside customers and the 9440 being a Nova-like 
chip that Fairchild could have cleaned up.  There weren't many other 
16-bit chips at the time (e.g. NS PACE, GI CP1600, TI TMS9900).  But 
Fairchild seemed not to be interested in selling the stuff.  

My understanding is that the 9440 is an "almost" Nova in that it 
lacks certain features needed to run Nova software.  Can anyone 
verify this?

Cheers,
Chuck