PANOS is a discontinued
computer
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operating system developed by
Acorn Computers in the 1980s and released in 1985, which ran on the
32016 Second Processor for the
BBC Micro and the
Acorn Cambridge Workstation
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. These systems had essentially the same architecture, based on a
32-bit
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NS32016 CPU
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; the ACW having a
BBC Micro-based "
I/O processor". Access to the I/O processor was through a NS32016
firmware
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kernel called ''Pandora''.
Panos ran on the NS32016 and was a rudimentary
single-user operating system, written in
Modula-2
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. It provided a simple
command line interpreter, a
text editor and access to
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,
ADFS or
NFS file system
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s via the I/O processor. Targeted at the academic and scientific user community, it came bundled with compilers for the
FORTRAN 77,
C,
Pascal
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and
LISP
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programming languages.
Commands
The following list of
commands
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* COMMAND.COM, the default operating system shell and command-line interpreter for DOS
* Command key, a modifier key on Apple Macintosh computer keyboards
* ...
is supported by the Panos command line interpreter.
* .''space''
*
.Delete
*
.Help
* .key
* .NewCommand
* .Obey
*
.pwd
* .Quit
* .Run
*
.Set
* .swd
* .wait
* Access
* Catalogue
* Configure
*
Copy
* Create
* Delete
*
Echo
*
Logon
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*
Rename
* Set
* Show
* Star
References
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Acorn operating systems
Discontinued operating systems
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