Unix on BBC micro with 16032 coprocessor

Tony Duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Tue Oct 11 06:44:18 CDT 2005


> > 
> > Silly random thought. IIRC, there's an empty 40 pin DIL socket on the ACW 
> > coprocessor board, and I think it's on the 32016 sencond processor board 
> > too (I must come and collect that from you). Wasn't that for an MMU chip?
> 
> Yep, you're right (about there being empty sockets on both versions of 
> the board). I suppose it's logical it'd be an MMU chip given that 
> there's no other connectors to the board (e.g. it's not for an optional 
> serial chip or whatever).

I've checked my ACW schematics, and it is for an 32082 MMU chip. 

My guess (as this wasn't used by PANOS) is that it was intended to be 
used for some never-released multitasking OS, probably a unix 
derrivative. 

-tony



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