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- From: altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes)
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- Subject: Re: Acorn news release: Advance
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- References: <C1GMJz.6FJ@cen.ex.ac.uk>
- Organization: The Serial Port
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:49:01 +0000
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- In article <C1GMJz.6FJ@cen.ex.ac.uk> MMBCorle@cen.ex.ac.uk writes:
-
- >In article <727652882snz@cryton.demon.co.uk>, altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo
- > Fiennes) writes:
- >
- >> In article <1jm1a7INNca@oak47.doc.ic.ac.uk> ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk writes:
- >
- >[...]
- >
- >>>In another of these releases (the one about the PC card), what I
- >>>really don't understand is : what's new?
- >>>
- >>>It says, basically, the the 'NEW' Acorn PC card IS the Aleph-1 PC
- >>>card, which has been on sale for ages - so what is this press
- >>>release all about ???
- >
- >> (a) From what I hear, they're at least 100 quid cheaper
- >
- >> (b) They come in A3000-minipodule form too, allowing you to have an
- >> A3010 with dual processors for example :-)
- >
- >> Hugo
- >
- >I also got the impression that they'd be able to use existing
- >expansions better; for example, I was told that you'd need to bolt an
- >Ethernet interface on to the back of the "old" PC cards, but the Press
- >Release mentions "using an existing Ethernet interface..."
- >
- >Anyone care to illuminate / confirm / deny?
- The new PC card is very very minimal - 386/486SLC chip, big 'pc on a chip'
- chip, an ASIC and an EPROM. Seeing as on both cards the Arc is emulating
- much of the PC i/o, I would think that the ethernet stuff (novell?)
- would be the same on both.
-
- Hugo
-
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