21 Apr
2016
21 Apr
'16
5:25 a.m.
On 21 April 2016 at 13:04, Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com>
wrote:
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.
PANOS you say? Here it is running on the ABC-310:
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/scripts/picshow.php?image=DSCF7209.jpg&…
(that picture was taken in 2002. I powered it up again late last year and
everything was OK APART from the ST225 which *nearly* works...)
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adrian/witchy
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www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk
