pl@etana.tut.fi (Lehtinen Pertti) (05/12/89)
From article <1078@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>, by shaver@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Dave Shaver): > (Sorry for the wide cross-posting; I'll keep it REAL short) > > A few weeks ago I bought two Acorn computers. This was the system the > BBC endorsed for their TV-based computer training show. With each of > them I got two user's manuals. The company which made these is long > gone, so I'm wondering if anyone out there has ANY information on these eunet.micro.acorn is well and alive, as well as Acorn Computers which just released Unix based workstations. I think machines you have are from the earlier 6502-series. It is (I think, am I right?) essentially same as BBC-micro. Newer machines from Acorn ( Archimedes 410, 440 and R140 ) are based on ARM-chipset (Acorn Risc Machine), which is very interesting processor. I plot some Mandelbrots with it, and basic program with soft-floats performed better than VAX compiled fortran. Pertti Lehtinen pl@tut.fi pl@tut.fi ! -------------------------------- ! Pertti Lehtinen ! Alone at the edge of the world ! Tampere University of Technology ! -------------------------------- ! Software Systems Laboratory