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- From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: New machines
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.122716.26205@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 12:27:16 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.131513.12073@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov13.172521.1259@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Organization: Nottingham University
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Nov13.172521.1259@infodev.cam.ac.uk> MJW19@phx.cam.ac.uk (M.J. Williams) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov13.131513.12073@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jabell@nyx.cs.du.edu (James Bell) writes:
- >>Thanks for all your replies to my last messages.
- >>Somebody told me recently that new machines from
- >>Acorn may use an 80486 processor for graphics work,
- >>working with the VIDCII to free up the ARMXXX. This
- >>sounds like pure imagination - could it be true?
- >
- >Pure imagination. Not even Acorn could be *that* stupid. Why use a piece of
- >crap like a 486 when you can get a cheap, faster processor and you own 30% of
- >the company that makes them?
- >
- >Not that Acorn would even need a separate graphics processor (although it may
- >be a good excuse to add another L500 to the retail price...)
-
- Not sure about this. I think James may have got his numbers mixed up and could
- well be getting confused with more suitable Intel chips.
-
- Simon.
-