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	Howdy ----

	First off let me introduce myself.  I'm the technical marketing
	manager for the Series 32000 product line.  The product line
	consists of the various components, software and system level
	products.  In other words, if its Series 32000 I'm involved
	in some way..

	In the last 24 hours, two articles were posted on the net
	that drove me to learning the tricks of posting my own
	article.  If I've made an error in the process, please
	excuse.

	Yes, National has previewed the NS32532, and we have 
	done that prior to having functional silicon.  We recognize
	that this is a departure from past practices at NSC.  We didn't do this
	as a result of any prior announcements by Mot or AMD.  We did
	it because we believe that the NS32532 is really a revolutionary
	device of sufficient importance to deserve special consideration.

	We have discussed the design of the NS32532 with several
	companies over the past year BUT all of this was under non-disclosure.
	We did this as a fine tuning process to ensure that the part
	was correctly architected.  We believe we have achieved
	our architectural objective.  The design is frozen.  Now
	to ease our discussions with a broader customer base, we have
	gone public.

	Yes, it is true that all we have today are simulated results.
	But we have more than just a simulation model.  We are in
	the final stages of a 5 year effort in designing this
	new addition to the Series 32000 family.  We are running
	extensive test vectors to ensure the integrity of the design
	prior to generating our first mask set.  We are very confident
	that we will have customer samples in the fourth calendar
	quarter of 1987.  What is so impressive about this project
	is that we are STILL ON OUR ORIGINAL SCHEDULE.

	I wish I had more than just simulated results, in a few
	short months, we will.

	For my friend Landon at Amdahl, I would like to say that the
	simulated dhrystones results we published are real.  Since
	he asked several pointed questions, I'll provide results
	du jour if you wish.

	Let me give you some details ------

	32332 @ 15 MHZ version 1.0 optimized ............ 3943.5
	32332 @ 15 MHZ version 1.1 optimized ............ 3183.0
	32332 @ 15 MHZ version 1.1 no global opt......... 2724.0


	32532 @ 30 MHZ version 1.0 optimized ............ 19800
	32532 @ 30 MHZ version 1.1 optimized ............ 16600
	32532 @ 30 MHZ version 1.1 no global opt ........ 14100

	Yes we have a new set of compilers in the works that among
	other things supports global optimizations.

	I don't care which compilers you use on which version of the
	benchmark, the 532 is better than 5X improvement over 
	todays 332 and over 11.7X faster than the 32032.

	OK you say ---- the 532 has a faster clock ------ lets factor that out
	of the equation. 

	      the 32532 is 2.53X the 32332 at the same frequency
	      the 32532 is 3.86  the 32032 at the same frequency

	Yes we have made significant architectural changes(hardware only)
	that provides this significant increase.  It's not imaginary
	and Landon, it isn't marketing hype.  It's fact. The numbers
	quoted were measured by the designers( members of the compiler
	team included) and NOT created by any of us in Marketing.


	An offer I have for you Landon ------

		       COME ON DOWN

	    I'll give you a load of documentation and we can arrange
	    a time to show you the simulator in action.

	One caveate:

	    I only have the low end simulator running on my system
	    and I don't have the latest tools so I can't show you the
	    listed results but I can get close.  I CAN show you
	    the improvement delta.