Xenix on the Acorn 32016

[Jules Richardson]

Graham Toal wrote:
> An update to the comments of last week: I retrieved my source listing of
> the linker for Panos last night, and buried in the middle of it was a
> commented-out section for handling object files from Xenix-32000.

Now that's interesting. Having seen some of Acorn's internal source and 
the way they often worked, it seemed there was a lot of "just go ahead 
and do it" philosophy going on. Maybe someone mentioned 32000 Xenix in 
passing and then some other programmer took it upon themselves to add 
support in to the linker :)

> So I guess at some point Acorn was indeed looking at Xenix for that
> platform.  I do sort of have a vague recollection of some involvement
> with Logica.

I need to dig out some of my old Acorn emails when I get back to the UK. 
I've got quite a few relating to Unix development, but I think they're 
all knocking around of ideas prior to developing RISCiX rather than any 
earlier Unix developments for the 32k line.

> By the way the Panos linker is 3/4in thick fanfold and quite a bit to
> scan.  I guess I'll do it sometime but it's not a priority;

Again, I'll check that I don't have it on disk when I get home in a month...

> The Edinburgh collection is getting quite impressive. We also have
> recovered locally written operating systems for the PDP9 and PDP15,
> two O/Ses for PDP11s, Perkin Elmer 32bit, 68000s and of course the
> big one, EMAS for ICL29XX 

That last one caught my eye, given that we have an ICL 2966 which we'd 
like to (try to) get operational one day (no mean feat, given how 
dismantled, rusty, and spread all to hell and back across lots of 
storerooms it is at the moment!).

Seems like there are "lots" (as in more than one :) of people/places who 
know about the 1900 line, but the 29xx's seem to be largely forgotten. 
Of course a complete 1900 would be nice, but I doubt there are any left 
anywhere...

cheers

Jules