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- From: lezz@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com (Lezz Giles)
- Subject: Re: The new Acorn Machine
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.190024.8510@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com>
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- Organization: Motorola Codex, Canton, MA
- References: <gilbertd.721643489@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> <1992Nov17.113305.27450@csd.uwe.ac.uk> <1992Nov18.113400.22875@opal.comlab.ox.ac.uk> <1992Nov20.104924.16886@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:00:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.104924.16886@csd.uwe.ac.uk>, r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey) writes:
- |>In article <1992Nov18.113400.22875@opal.comlab.ox.ac.uk> as@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Stevens) writes:
- |>
- |>>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.
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- This sounds interesting - can somebody send me details (costs, etc) of
- this kind of setup? I'm in the USA, so I also need to know about support.
- If this gets me a dirt-cheap colour X-terminal then I'm very interested
- in it.
-
- Lezz Giles
-