23 Apr
2016
23 Apr
'16
11:11 a.m.
On 04/21/2016 09:51 AM, Jon Elson wrote:
On 04/21/2016 07:04 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
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
On 04/20/2016 10:00 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
I'm pretty sure I ran both Genix and then Xenix on the Logical
Microcomputer Co. 32016 we bought. 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.