🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1ius6lINNk5g@clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, phudv@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr R B Birkby) writes:
|>  ... some blurb about A540 replacement.


|> 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 ;-) 

Well, he only said that the PROTOTYPE is using an A610.  I was under the
impression that Acorn aren't about to release any A600 type machine's, but
are waiting for the bigger and better (700 or 800) processors.  In the
meantime, rather than twiddling their thumbs, they are building prototypes
around what is currently available, so that they can have something good
to try out the new chips on when they appear.

This is speculation based on a rumour that Acorn won't be release Arm610
machines.  Don't know how accurate it is.

Ian Griffiths