Date   : Thu, 03 May 2007 08:39:00 +0100
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: Arthur on 5.25" media...

On 02/05/2007 23:18, Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:

> Pete Turnbull <pete@...> wrote:
>>>> The Arm second processor (aka Arm Evaluation System) didn't run Arthur.
>>> Now, was that the same as Brazil, or was Brazil different code completely?

> Brazil and Springboard is an ARM development/evaluation system
> plugged into a PC. The system code for it is at
> http://mdfs.net/Mirror/Archive/Acorn/Spring.zip

Hmm, that rings a bell.

> I think Brazil is the hardware and Springboard is the software.

No, the other way round.  Springboard is the hardware, which came in two 
versions, differing only in memory size.  It was an ISA card to plug 
into a PC.  It's not the same as the Arm Evaluation System for a BBC 
Micro, though it is contemporaneous and does a similar job.  It came 
with some of the same utilities (TWIN, Assembler, etc, though on 360K 
MS-DOS disks of course) but unlike normal Beeb/Master/Archimedes stuff, 
it was handled by the OEM sales group at Acorn and dropped not long 
after the Archimedes was launched (so was the OEM sales group, but 
that's another story :-)).  But if Brazil was the on-board software for 
Springboard (and that does sound familiar) and possibly the codename for 
the equivalent Executive/supervisor software on an ARM Evaluation System 
for a Beeb, then why would it also be associated with an A680, which was 
a Unix development system that came much later?

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York