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- From: neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: A4 and RISC OS 3.10
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.111544.3760@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 11:15:44 GMT
- References: <14887@suns4.crosfield.co.uk>
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- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
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- In article <14887@suns4.crosfield.co.uk> ojg@crosfield.co.uk (oliver gunasekara) writes:
- >
- >I have also been told that this years Acorn User show will have some thing
- >special from Acorn, which will be for sale 12 months later. Acorn want the
- >title of the 'fastest Personal workstation' back.
- >
-
- Hmm, this sounds very moving goal post quote.
-
- Define 'Personal Workstation'.
-
- 486/33 PC, Mac Quadra 950, NeXT Station Turbo, Sun IPC ???
-
- Acorn once held the Worlds fastest Micro title by a hell of a long way
- when the Arc was firsts 3).
-
- A machine in 12 months time will have some VERY stiff competition as Acorn
- have frittered away their lead. The 586 will be out, RISC Unix boxes prices
- are still falling.
-
- Is the Sun Viking/Tsnami chip (in the Sparcstation 10), or the HP PA set,
- or IBM set or DEC Alpha to name some of the competition outside this
- 'Personal Workstation' arena ??
-
- Neil
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