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- From: njh@ukc.ac.uk (Niki Hemmings)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Acorn RiscPC --- a thought?
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 20:46:45 GMT
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- In article <9602060037.AA000uf@girvan.demon.co.uk>,
- Allan Girvan <allan@girvan.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- >On Mon, 05 Feb 96, Neil wrote:
- >> Has anyone in the amiga fold thought of looking at the Acorn RiscPC platform?
- >> It seems to be in a similar vein to the BeBox, has loads of native software,
- >> is really quick esp. with graphics, can run PC software witgh a coprocessor
- >> too, has optional multi-processor capability and runs NetBSD.
-
- [...]
-
- >The fact remains that nobody (apart from Acorn) supports the ARM stuff.
- >Apple tried using it with the Newton and look where that got them!
-
- Yeah, you've got a point there, the Newton's failure was obviously entirely
- down to the processor they chose. Like the way the 1084 monitors weren't
- very popular because of the make of capacitors in them...
-
- I think not!
-
- [...]
-
- >The fact that it can emulate an IBM Clone is hardly a selling point - IBM
- >Clones are cheaper.
-
- Now this is it. This has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard anyone
- say, EVER!
-
- Like, suppose you suddenly introduce IBM compatibility into the Amiga,
- instantaneously allowing it to run countless amounts of industry standard
- software, and you say that's NOT A SELLING POINT?!?
-
- You, my friend, are completely out of your tree!
-
- [...]
-
- >Bits of every decent GUI were ripped off by Windows 95 - Acorn more than
- >most! (But that's Microsoft for you!) But you can't honestly expect Amiga
- >users the world over to pin their colours to a largely untried processor
- >with next to nothing in the way of software whose only claim to fame is
- >that the same engineers once made the BBC micro!
-
- You know what, I get the feeling that the original poster WASN'T "honestly
- expecting Amiga users the world over" to do this. His words were, "Has
- anyone in the amiga fold thought of looking at the Acorn RiscPC platform?"
-
- That's just a TEENY bit different from demanding us all to switch
- platforms, don't you think?
-
- The point is, there are a lot of sensible, clever things about the RISC-PC,
- and the Amiga community would do well just to take a look at it.
- Personally, the thought of being able to slap a Pentium into my Amiga and
- start running the latest PC software from the same box, in an intuition
- window, at full speed, rather appeals to me.
-
- Nik.
-