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- From: r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: The new Acorn Machine
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.104924.16886@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 10:49:24 GMT
- References: <gilbertd.721643489@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> <1992Nov17.113305.27450@csd.uwe.ac.uk> <1992Nov18.113400.22875@opal.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Nov18.113400.22875@opal.comlab.ox.ac.uk> as@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Stevens) writes:
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- >I'd say Acorn would be better off sticking with their strengths
- >and developing the RISC OS line to really compete with Commodore
- >and the PC's in the home edu market. Who'd even *notice* a
- >me-too UNIX machine from Acorn?
-
- You could be right. However, one field they appear to be having some
- success in is the X market, with A5000s running X connected either to
- a mainframe or an R260 subnet. In education you quite often don't
- need the power of a workstation if you have lots of mainframe resources
- to hand in any case. I understand that Acorns package (A5000, TCPIP, X)
- can work out cheaper than many dumb X terminals, and give you a RISCOS
- machine as a bonus.
-
- Cheers
-
- Bob
-
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