So the Wikipedia article isn't lying, there are some passing references to UNIX on the BBC. I have a BBC but not a Tube... I am wondering what I can find for BeebEm.
Thanks for the info. Very interesting. Aaron > On 05/25/2016 08:36 AM, Aaron Jackson wrote: >> I just revisited the Wikipedia page for the BBC Micro Tube [1]. >> Apparently with a 32bit NS320 processor it was possible to run some >> variant of UNIX? Does anyone know anything about this? I'd be very >> interested in experimenting with it, if it is true. > > All evidence that I've seen suggests that it didn't exist, at least in the > wild, even though some documentation does make a passing reference to it > (it's quoted in the BBC user manual, I believe, and I've seen it in some > Acorn Business Computer marketing material). > > Acorn - with involvement from Logica - certainly attempted a port of Xenix > to the hardware, but it's not clear how far they ever got. I've seen a few > corporate emails which suggest that they were encountering severe > performance problems, both with the ns32k CPU itself and with transfer of > data across the Tube link. > > For Unix "on a BBC" I think the only option was System III from Torch > running on a m68k "Atlas" co-processor. > > cheers > > Jules