mph@praxis.co.uk (Martin Hanley) (11/02/88)
In article <1213@dutesta.UUCP> alfred@dutesta.UUCP (Herman Adriani & Alfred Kayser) writes: >I only see discussions about established firms and there hardware. Am I >the only one who ever heard about the Acorn Risc chip and there computer >'Archimedes' No! > , or do all of you ignore this machine just because it is a >small (british) company which manufactures strange computers (BBC). Probably. >What I like to know: How does this newsgroup think about this machine (chip). The machine is V.Good. The chip is an extremely fast *true* RISC chip. There is a floating point processor ready but not yet being distributed. Ditto Unix. It is extremely cheap (about 800 pounds sterling). I want one! Disclaimer: Do you honestly believe that a company would want my opinions? mph@praxis.co.uk ---------"I'm not a god, I was just misquoted" - Lister, "Red Dwarf"-----------
kiwi@motto.UUCP (Kiwi the Magnificent) (04/12/90)
In article 9442 of comp.arch, richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes: > >In article <100@motto.UUCP> kiwi@motto.UUCP (Kiwi the Magnificent) writes: ...my own stuff deleted... > >When last I looked at the Acorn machine its big problem was that 4Mb >was the maximum the memory controller could handle. This makes X just >barely usable (and that's being generous). Otherwise the machine >would be excellent value. I think it already is, given that it has FOUR operating systems and BSD 4.3 Unix. Sure, X-Windows in 4MB is a bit much, but X-Windows is only useful for SOME things. Anyway, I haven't seen any Intel-based PCs (running some Unix variant) running X-windows effectively. > >I did hear that it might be possible to add a second memory controller. >Can someone from Acorn tell us what the current position is? 4Mb is >just not enough! Yes, you can expand the R140 to 8 megs...and that will go up and up too given third party support. Besides, it swaps memory in and out like VAXes,OS/2 etc. I agree though...4MB is a bit small for X-windows. Try and run mathematica on that...! :-) > >-- Richard >-- >Richard Tobin, JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed >AI Applications Institute, ARPA: R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk >Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin They're intending on pushing the R140 in universities, since they are ideally suited to that environment...easily network, cheap, reliable, etc. Let's hope they make some breakthroughs. Here in Canada, they are still bubbling around but haven't done anything major. Cheers! Kiwi. -- ============================================================================= kiwi@motto.UUCP amadeus@contact.UUCP amadeus@watcsc.waterloo.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Motorola Canada Ltd. | "IBM is for people who can't handle reality. Communications Division. | Drugs are for people who can't handle IBM." =============================================================================