[M3devel] Yet Another OS in Modula-3, AVOCA, in x-kernel

[Daniel Alejandro Benavides D.]

Hi all:
Well indeed, that they sell like 200 copies of ARX Acorn/Olivetti (besides 100 or so developers on the developer machines):
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?set=custom&viewmonth=200909&viewday=&forum_name=png-mng-implement&style=nested&max_rows=75&submit=Change+View

If so, they didn't release because of the cost issues were very important as you can see in this 01:30 video

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11082701

Anyway the history behind that system is on this machine:

http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/Computers/A500.html

It seemed that the Acorn had not released because of cost issues rather than marketing reasons, since the selling machines were not ready for its system:
http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/docs/Acorn/Tech/Acorn_FastA500s.pdf

But the compiler (I think called CAMEL) was not to blame, since it had a pretty good performance in terms of the chip (yeah it was but even not that fast for such machines cost relation). Later it wasn't released for some other reasons (would I know why, I guess they just took C route).

Thanks in advance 

--- El mar, 13/12/11, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> escribió:

> De: Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>
> Asunto: Re: [M3devel] Yet Another OS in Modula-3, AVOCA, in x-kernel
> Para: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Fecha: martes, 13 de diciembre, 2011 17:38
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 09:54:50PM
> +0000, Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. wrote:
> >
> > But the best is still unknown they worked hard in UI
> toolkits, at 
> > Olivetti, collaborative Windowing systems, and that
> even that wasn't 
> > released as well, what does that mean, that nobody
> used it?
> 
> If they didn't release it, no one could use it.  So
> why did they not 
> release it?
> 
> -- hendrik
>