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

[Daniel Alejandro Benavides D.]

Hi all:
I think the case is they just hacked the system with a BSD kernel and Modula and C runtime to their 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_iX#A680_Technical_Publishing_System

I guess this was the "clone" Acorn Unix ARX, that is the way to not release the ARX; wbut anyway it were never released, though Risc iX saw the light of the market:
http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/docs/Acorn/Manuals/Acorn_TechnicalPublishingSystemTRMPt1.pdf

http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/docs/Acorn/Manuals/Acorn_TechnicalPublishingSystemTRMPt2.pdf

Thanks in advance

--- El lun, 19/12/11, Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. <dabenavidesd at yahoo.es> escribió:

> De: Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. <dabenavidesd at yahoo.es>
> Asunto: Re: [M3devel] Yet Another OS in Modula-3, AVOCA, in x-kernel
> Para: m3devel at elegosoft.com, "Hendrik Boom" <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>
> Fecha: lunes, 19 de diciembre, 2011 13:08
> 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
> >
>