30 Nov
2014
30 Nov
'14
8:47 p.m.
On 11/30/2014 06:54 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
One of these days, I think I'd quite like to find one of
the FPUs; I've got a few Acorn boards which use the 32016,
but I've only ever seen one out in the wild with the
floating point unit fitted - and I happen to have a copy
of Acorn's FP test code which came via an ex-employee. To
my knowledge no commercial software (such as there even
was any for the hardware) ever used it, but it seems a
shame to have the code and nothing to run it against.
I have a few of them alone, as well as a bunch of 32016
Multibus boards that have
the FPU installed.
There was also a rumored port of Xenix to the
hardware,
but while I can confirm that it certainly existed as a
project, I've never seen anything to suggest that it got
beyond proof of concept.
Logical Micro of Chicago made a system using the 16032. At
first they used Genix,
then the sent out a newer OS, I now forget what it was. it
didn't run any faster,
which was my major concern.
Jon