On 04/21/2016 09:51 AM, Jon Elson wrote:
On 04/21/2016 07:04 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
On 04/20/2016 10:00 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
Nice collection. I'd forgotten about the 32016! What software ran on these
respective processors?
OS-wise the 32016 ran something called Panos, with Pandora as the
firmware - mostly written in Modula-2. Acorn (working with Logica)
attempted a Xenix port, and some documentation references Xenix as being
available, but I don't think it was ever released; having to run all the
I/O across the Tube interface just proved to be too much of a bottleneck.
I'm pretty sure I ran both Genix and then Xenix on the Logical
Microcomputer Co. 32016 we bought.
Oh, I'm sure there were ports around which used that particular CPU. But
within the context of Acorn's co-processor, I've never seen evidence that
Xenix ever saw the light of day. I do have some internal company documents
which suggest that they were having some terrible performance issues with
the port though, so it was certainly attempted...
Jules
