Date   : Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:24:38 -0600
From   : julesrichardsonuk@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: Scheme for 32016

Mike wrote:
>  whilst I'm at it, wondering what other software
 > there was for the 32016, (aprt from the supplied BBC Basic, Pascal, FORTAN,
 > C and LISP). I beleive there is a BCPL I now know there was a 'Scheme',
 > and I've heard rumours of a version of SPICE.
 > Anybody know anything more?

To my knowledge that's pretty much it on the commercial side, although 
Cambridge uni had a few homegrown bits and pieces (I've not been able to 
obtain copies, though - every time I bump into someone who used the machines 
at Cambridge, it turns out they've long since tossed their disks from the time 
out)

Quickchip CAD was written largely on ACW machines, but nobody I've found so 
far knows for sure if it was ever actually *released* for the ACW/32016.

Xenix "almost" existed for the 32016. So far I've been able to unearth 
documents detailing exchanges between Acorn and Logica on the matter as well 
as results of initial testing, but I don't know of any surviving binaries or 
source code - or know exactly how far the project got before it was canned 
(the fact that public knowledge about the project seems to be virtually zero 
suggests that they never got a full version of the OS going)

cheers

Jules


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