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- From: cs89jmb@brunel.ac.uk (Aeon Flux)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: The new Acorn Machine
- Message-ID: <Bxwq35.Do@brunel.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 10:21:00 GMT
- References: <gilbertd.721989130@p4.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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- David Alan Gilbert (gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk) wrote:
- : In <1992Nov16.133719.27313@infodev.cam.ac.uk> nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nicko van Someren) writes:
- :
- : >It may be that RISCiX comes with too much but the price that Acorn set
- : >for RISCiX is very good value for what to you get. An R260 is only
- : >500 quid more than an A540 and comes with not only a full BSD4.3 with
- : >TCP/IP, NFS, and X but also X.desktop, both the Athena and Motif
- : >widgets and libraries, FORTRAN, PASCAL and C compilers, assembler and
- : >a good sized set of useful tools including gnuemacs. I once totted up
- : >how much a similar setup from SCO would cost for a 486 (and face it
- : >you need a good 486 to catch an R260, a 386 is not good enough). SCO
- : >unix gives you very little in the basic setup. The full set will cost
- : >you the best part of 2800 pounds retail in the UK. If you just want
- : >SCO with NFS, X, a C compiler and the various widget libraries it
- : >still costs over 1400 pounds.
- :
- : I think that is fair enough - but...
- :
- : ... an A540 is a bit pricy to start with - thinking of it another
- : way an A540 is around #1000 more than an A5000 so that makes an
- : R260 #1500 more than an A5000. Perhaps a lot of this is more
- : due for the need for pricing to catch up with the release of
- : the A5000.
-
- Actually are you looking at RRP prices?
-
- Because not so long ago Beebug were selling off some A540 machines at around
- the 1600 pounds stirling mark (ex. VAT) which made me think that a new, higher
- spec machine was around the corner.
-
- I'm pretty sure they were brand new, had the hard disc etc...
-
- Then we got the A3010/A3020/A4000 range ;-)
-
- But if you look at the pointers, this suggests a new, improved machine soon.
-
- <stuff deleted>
-
- : - David Alan Gilbert - gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk - G7FHJ@GB7NWP -
- : ------(Programmers don't sleep - they just park their heads)-------------------
-
- Jayce.
-
- P.S. I don't have any connection with Beebug - I just remember the advert!
-
- --
- "I may be a shallow guy, but a shallow guy with a great ass!" - Cat, Red Dwarf
-
- Jason "Archangel" Banham Internet: cs89jmb@brunel.ac.uk
- aangel@sequent.co.uk
-
- ***** Acorn rep on StudentSoft/Archimedes owner/Computer Scientist *****
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