Ancient 8086/80286 unixes?

[Liam Proven]

On 11/09/2007, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Tony Duell wrote:
> > And I think there was an ARM-2 development system on an ISA card. Never
> > seen it, though
>
> Looking at a photo of one of mine (the one with the additional I/O controller
> and Acorn bus connector), it seems to be an ARM2 CPU - not an ARM1 as I'd
> remembered. (At least Google gives the impression that the VL-2333 chip is a
> second-generation).
>
> I think I even have software for it. Unfortunately I'm not sure that I have
> the firmware, which makes it a little bit useless :-) (Given that it seems to
> use a standard TUBE ULA to communicate with the ISA bus, I suppose there's a
> very slim chance that it'll work with Acorn's 'Brazil' ROMs from some of their
> other early/dev hardware, but I wouldn't hold my breath...)

Wasn't there an ARM "accelerator" for PCs, called the Springboard
IIRC? Most of an Archimedes' core logic, but no sound/display or
storage, on a big ISA board.

[Googles]

Here we go...
http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/docs/Mags/PCW/PCW_Jan88_Springboard.pdf

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