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webmaster <webmaster@acornarcade.com> wrote in article
<488ecb1381webmaster@argonet.co.uk>...
> Hi,
> 
> Acorn Arcade have just been granted permission to announce details of a
> project which could well give a bright future to our favourite OS, RISC
> OS.  This comes in the form of ChiBER, a StrongARM PCI-card which slots
> into the back of an off the shelf PC, transforming it into a fully
> functional RISC OS machine with possibilities for RiscPC 2 beating
> performance!
> 
> For full details, see:
>   http://www.acornarcade.com/cgi-bin/go-aa?news/chiber/
> 
> All the best,
> Alasdair Bailey (News Editor)

Let's hope it isn't vapourware. I've talked about such a thing for years
and
even send the idea to Acorn by fax... Bundle it with Artworks, Publisher
and
the Ant suite and sell it in the VS too. 

Hmmmm, the homepage states...

"This development is by all means quite revolutionary to say the least. "

Not so, I think people have thought of this for years. I even thought about
doing it myself (ARM2/ARM3, because there wasn't a ARM > 3 those days).
And even about a GIO card to plug it into my Indigo... (But as always so
little time :-( ).

Reading further:

"Well, Jason needs assistance to get his idea from the drawing board into
reality"

Ah, it is vapourware/dreamware....

See also: http://www.chios.org.uk/

I think that Acorn could make such a card within 3 months.

Price? I think that the price must be between US$ 300 - US$ 600 to be
attractive to
PC users (unless you want to sell just < 500 cards to Acorn/PC owners).


John


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