Re: A couple of questions.

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From: Mr R B Birkby
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:38

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 andyf@uk.sun.com (Andrew Fox - Sun UK - Answer centre) writes:

>Acorn are, in fact working on a replacement for the A540, and it should be with
>us quite shortly.

>It is currently called 'Victoria', in line with Acorns policy of naming machines
>after Australian cities (Brisbane - A5000, Perth - A4, Adelaide - A30x0).

>The prototype machine has an ARM610 running at 66Mhz in it, 8Mb of ram (with slots
>for up to 64Mb), VIDC20, and a slightly newer version of RISC OS 3.


Most of this information seems obvious but why would acorn want to sell a
product with the ARM610 ?
Surely an ARM600 with a FPU integrated or an external coprocessor bus would be
the best choice. Acorn wouldn't use this in a prototype either, they'd
construct a CPU board akin to the one in early A3010's with FPU support.

This sure does sound a nice machine though, especially the 66Mhz ;-) 

Richard.
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