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- From: njh@ukc.ac.uk (Niki Hemmings)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Acorn RiscPC --- a thought?
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 04:27:42 GMT
- Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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- References: <1996Feb5.164323.465@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk> <9602060037.AA000uf@girvan.demon.co.uk> <14478@gos.ukc.ac.uk> <1996Feb8.125203.18170@leeds.ac.uk>
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- In article <1996Feb8.125203.18170@leeds.ac.uk>,
- J M Oldak <csxjmo@scs.leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
- >The ARM chip was the only sensible choice at the time. It was cheap, powerful
- >(about 25 MIPS) and used less than a quarter of a watt.
-
- Exactly.
-
- Those that agree that the Newton was a failure, tend to relate this to the
- fact that after the novelty had worn off, the machine wasn't really useful
- enough to warrant the price tag. I've never before heard anyone claim that
- its failure was because Apple chose the ARM processor!
-
- Nik.
-