8 May
2012
8 May
'12
6:27 p.m.
On 05/07/2012 03:34 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Like the M4, I don't think the A680 was ever commercially released; it was
just an in-house dev platform for RISCiX.
There was the R260 which made it out into the wild though, and which ran
much better than the R140 (more RAM, SCSI rather than ST506, and an ARM-3
rather than ARM-2 CPU). Oh, and the R225, which was a diskless, networked
version of the R260 (I've never seen one of the latter, but I do have some
docs for one in storage, so I assume it was commercially available too).
Acorn were at one point working on a Xenix port for the 32016/BBC
platforms, but to the best of my knowledge that one never made it out of
the very early prototype stage.
cheers
Jules
particularly
my PETs, but anyone in the UK fancy a Superbrain and an Acorn
R140? That machine=B9s worth collecting purely for the BSD side, AFAIK it was
the only Acorn unix box.
Was it? What about the A680? (No, I don't have one. I have narrowly
missed getting one twice :-()