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Lee Dickey <mnetor!utzoo!utgpu!water!ljdickey@uunet.uu.net> writes:
>Norman R. Frech <nfrech@ALMSA-1.ARPA>, writes:
> [...]

> In January, I was in a shop in Hamilton, New Zealand, that was showing
> the Archimedes.  It seemed to be a splendid machine, but was greatly
> overpriced at about 7 or 8 thousand NZ dollars.  From what I
> could see, the Atari still offered better value for money.

I don't know what Acorns policy is for sales to New Zealand but I
believe that they actually had some sucess with the BBC in
Australia so perhaps they are prepared to push the Archimedes in that
part of the world.

I have just read an article in Computer Weekly about the Archimedes and
the ARM RISC chip set. Acorns Dirrector of Sales and Marketing, Ian
Laurence, is quoted as saying that "We (Acorn) would love it to
happen (a US cheap workstation manufacturer using the ARM) because
there is no way we could sell Archimedes in the US. The Americans
are very parochial." ???

So it doesn't look like the Archimedes will make it to the US unless
Acorn have a major change of policy.

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