Unix on BBC micro with 16032 coprocessor

[Scott Stevens]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 01:41:07 +0100
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Pete Hollobon wrote:
> > Does anyone know if Xenix / Unix were ever available on the NS 16032
> > second processor for the BBC micro? I remember reading that it was
> > intended to be made available in the user's guide years ago.
> > 
> 
> I don't *think* it ever saw the light of day. As others have
> mentioned, it was planned for the ABC 2xx / Cambridge Workstation
> machines, but I don't think it was anything more than vapourware.
> 
> Occasionally I see comments along the lines of most people ditching 
> PANOS on the ACW in favour of Xenix - but I'm yet to find any evidence
> 
> from talking to people who origianlly owned the machines back in the
> day that this was the case.
> 
> Would Xenix likely even run in the 1MB of the BBC Micro's 32016 copro?
> I can believe it'd be usable on the 4MB of the ACW, but might be
> pushing it a bit in 1MB.

Xenix runs fine in the 512KB of the Altos 586, and supports multiple
users in that memory.