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- From: r_voisey@beans.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: New machines
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.100324.2025@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 10:03:24 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.131513.12073@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov14.020225.29514@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1992Nov14.102036.4399@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Nov14.102036.4399@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, djt1000@cl.cam.ac.uk (D.J. Taylor) writes:
- |> emulating at 486 speed? Anyhow the PC card is a good idea. I have a lot of
- |> 'friends' at uni with 486 machines, who turn around to me with an ARM3 based
- |> machine and say "Well you cannot run everything I can!".
-
- For that matter, they can't run everything you can.. and Mac owners can't run
- everything Spectrum owners can.
-
- |> Hving said this I am very anti PC machines, but if Acorn want to (and I don't
- |> know if they're trying) get a decent slice of the industry market, then I'm
- |> afraid they might have to go in with a completely PC compatable machine, and pull
- |> users away from the ideas of PC machines once they have sold them Acorn 'PC's'.
-
- I've never heard anyone from Acorn claim to be tackling traditional PC markets,
- other than the occassional attempt to attract home users away from DOS/Windows
- to an ARM solution. They do, however, appear to be interested in the workstation
- market (with some success, by all accounts).
-
- Bob
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