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RISC iX was just BSD ported to Acorn hardware, so there's very little to distinguish it from any ARM port of a BSD OS.
by LeoPanthera 6y ago
RISC iX was just BSD ported to Acorn hardware, so there's very little to distinguish it from any ARM port of a BSD OS.
- rbanffy 6y agoIt'd still be cool.
- jlarcombe 6y agoI think you can emulate it, but it's a bit awkward.
- rbanffy 6y agoThe interesting aspect is that it had IXI's X.desktop. It ended up in SCO Unixware, but it's an interesting historical artifact.
- jlarcombe 6y agoYeah, also an Econet implementation and some novel on-the-fly executable compression in the file system I think? the whole thing was slightly hamstrung by the comparatively huge page sizes of MEMC...