21 Oct
2005
21 Oct
'05
12:06 p.m.
Graham Toal wrote:
An update to the comments of last week: I retrieved my
source listing of
the linker for Panos last night, and buried in the middle of it was a
commented-out section for handling object files from Xenix-32000.
Now that's interesting. Having seen some of Acorn's internal source and
the way they often worked, it seemed there was a lot of "just go ahead
and do it" philosophy going on. Maybe someone mentioned 32000 Xenix in
passing and then some other programmer took it upon themselves to add
support in to the linker :)
So I guess at some point Acorn was indeed looking at
Xenix for that
platform. I do sort of have a vague recollection of some involvement
with Logica.
I need to dig out some of my old Acorn emails when I get back to the UK.
I've got quite a few relating to Unix development, but I think they're
all knocking around of ideas prior to developing RISCiX rather than any
earlier Unix developments for the 32k line.
By the way the Panos linker is 3/4in thick fanfold and
quite a bit to
scan. I guess I'll do it sometime but it's not a priority;
Again, I'll check that I don't have it on disk when I get home in a month...
The Edinburgh collection is getting quite impressive.
We also have
recovered locally written operating systems for the PDP9 and PDP15,
two O/Ses for PDP11s, Perkin Elmer 32bit, 68000s and of course the
big one, EMAS for ICL29XX
That last one caught my eye, given that we have an ICL 2966 which we'd
like to (try to) get operational one day (no mean feat, given how
dismantled, rusty, and spread all to hell and back across lots of
storerooms it is at the moment!).
Seems like there are "lots" (as in more than one :) of people/places who
know about the 1900 line, but the 29xx's seem to be largely forgotten.
Of course a complete 1900 would be nice, but I doubt there are any left
anywhere...
cheers
Jules