rcpieter@svin02.info.win.tue.nl (Tiggr) (12/01/90)
Welcome to comp.sys.acorn! Tiggr
lester@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (K R Lester) (12/03/90)
In article <1613@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> rcpieter@svin02.info.win.tue.nl (Tiggr) writes: >Welcome to comp.sys.acorn! > >Tiggr Yipeeeee!!!!! Sorry couldn't resist. What a _Wonderful_ section, I can already visualise the thousands of excellent articles that will flood into this section, so I'd better start thinking hadn't we! I have to admit I thought that words like BBC and ARC were to be forever shunned from this grand world. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe. I've been attempting to get people to listen to be about the power of the Arc (unfortunately I don't have one yet) and the interface capabilities of the BBC which even now is still an impressive machine (to me anyway). I know in the UK (from whence I originally hail - and sleet and snow and rain) that the Arc (and Beeb) are used in scientific institutions for serious purposes, but will anyone listen. Nah! Oh well, one can only keep trying. I am currently surrounded by computers of all descriptions eg PDP's, sparcs, genuine IBMs!! VAXes etc ,but nary an Arc among them, mind you a couple of beebs at home tho'. (Incidentally I believe that the Sinclair QL is quite a good machine despite its handicap of coming from the Sinclair stable so why don't you users, if you exist drag the Quantum Leap from alt.folklore and make your own section. QL is rather an unfortunate name if you're a physicist incidentally since it is the smallest possible leap!!???) Anyway back to the point. I'm waiting to see what the new ARM III will be like - and the unix box to go with it perhaps. Can the unix workstations Rxxx run RiscOs, I hope so. regards Kim