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Article #742Re: Price of new machines
From: Torben AEgidius Mogensen
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:51
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:51
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maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J L Saunders) writes: >I know all this is expecting a lot, but maybe when the new machine comes out >Acorn should follow Sun's example by setting a standard and licencing it out to >third parties. That way hopefully we'll get some cheap, good quality machines >that really compete with the rest of the workstation industry. I wouldn't expect this. There is not sufficient market for RiscOS machines for several manufacturers. As for Acorns Unix machines, there is already nothing that prevents other companies from releasing workstations based on ARM processors. So if noone has done so yet, I can't see why onyone would start in the immediate future. If ARM processors go on to be really popular (and not just in game consoles), we might see this happen, but until then I wouldn't expect anything. Torben Mogensen (torbenm@diku.dk)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!diku!torbenm From: torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech Subject: Re: Price of new machines Keywords: Acorn, Sun, mips, workstation. Message-ID: <1993Jan22.115111.24404@odin.diku.dk> Date: 22 Jan 93 11:51:11 GMT References: <6677@falcon.ukc.ac.uk> <1993Jan19.123023.15432@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1jmo7mINN7k6@violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk> Sender: torbenm@thor.diku.dk Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen Lines: 16