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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!diku!torbenm
- From: torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: Price of new machines
- Keywords: Acorn, Sun, mips, workstation.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.115111.24404@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 11:51:11 GMT
- References: <6677@falcon.ukc.ac.uk> <1993Jan19.123023.15432@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1jmo7mINN7k6@violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
- Sender: torbenm@thor.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 16
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- maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J L Saunders) writes:
-
- >I know all this is expecting a lot, but maybe when the new machine comes out
- >Acorn should follow Sun's example by setting a standard and licencing it out to
- >third parties. That way hopefully we'll get some cheap, good quality machines
- >that really compete with the rest of the workstation industry.
-
- I wouldn't expect this. There is not sufficient market for RiscOS
- machines for several manufacturers. As for Acorns Unix machines, there
- is already nothing that prevents other companies from releasing
- workstations based on ARM processors. So if noone has done so yet, I
- can't see why onyone would start in the immediate future. If ARM
- processors go on to be really popular (and not just in game consoles),
- we might see this happen, but until then I wouldn't expect anything.
-
- Torben Mogensen (torbenm@diku.dk)
-