Panos (operating system)

Panos
Developer	Acorn Computers
Written in	Modula-2
Working state	Historic
Initial release	1984 (1984)^[1]
Marketing target	Academic and scientific user community
Platforms	BBC Micro 32016 Second Processor, Acorn Cambridge Workstation
Default user interface	Command line interface

Panos is a discontinued computer operating system developed by Acorn Computers in the 1980s, which ran on the 32016 Second Processor for the BBC Micro and the Acorn Cambridge Workstation. These systems had essentially the same architecture, based on a 32-bit NS32016 CPU; the ACW having a BBC Micro-based "I/O processor". Access to the I/O processor was through a NS32016 firmware kernel called Pandora.

Panos ran on the NS32016 and was a rudimentary single-user operating system, written in Modula-2. It provided a simple command line interpreter, a text editor and access to DFS, ADFS or NFS file systems via the I/O processor. Targeted at the academic and scientific user community, it came bundled with compilers for the FORTRAN 77, C, Pascal and LISP programming languages.

References

Acorn Computers, derivatives, clones and compatibles

Operating systems

Acorn computers

8-bit microcomputers	Microcomputer Systems 2 to 5 Atom BBC Micro (aka Proton) Electron Communicator Business Computer BBC Master

32-bit PCs	Archimedes range A4 RiscPC A7000 Set-Top Box Network Computer Phoebe

8-bit microcomputers	Prodest PC128S

32-bit PCs	A9home ARMini (BeagleBoard-xM) BIK (BeagleBoard-xM in Kiste) Omega Mico Medi RiscStation R7500 A75 Iyonix

32-bit dev boards	BeagleBoard DevKit8000 IGEPv2 Pandora PandaBoard Raspberry Pi Touch Book

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