ND-5000 family

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The ND-5000 family is the third generations system based on the ND-500 architecture. It is a totally new construction both in hardware and physical layout. The ND-5000 CPU uses the same instructions as the ND-500 CPU but adds a couple of new instructions called '87 extensions', also found in the ND-500/1 and ND-500/2 CPUs.

The new ND-5000 CPU replaces 24 cards in the old ND-500 arcitecture. The single processor ND-5700 system have the same computational power as a ND-570 system.

The ND-5000 series of computers is able to run both SINTRAN-III and NDIX, Norsk Data's version of UNIX.

Hardware implementation

The ND-5000 family systems uses a ND-100/ND-110/ND-120 CPU as I/O processor.

Models

The original series of ND-5000 computers came in three different models, ND-5700, ND-5800 and ND-5900. Later additions to the family were a Compact model, ND-5200.

ND-5000 system comparision chart
System Relative CPU performance Memory shared (Mb) Memory local (Mb) Data cache (Kb) Instruction cache (Kb) Max disk capacity (Gb)
ND-5700 1 8-512 2 64 320 29
ND-5800 2 16-512 4 64 320 29
ND-5900 Model 2 4 16-512 4 2x64 2x320 29
ND-5900 Model 3 6 16-512 4 3x64 3x320 29
ND-5900 Model 4 8 16-512 4 4x64 4x320 29

Reference

  • NEWS March 1987, pg. 52-53, "The ND-5000 Series: Removing Hardware Limitations".
  • Norsk Data Document ND–05.009.3 NORD-500 REFERENCE MANUAL