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- From: chill@mentorg.com (Chris Hill)
- Subject: British inventors set sights on Nitendo
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 08:24:11 GMT
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- Article from yesterdays Mail on Sunday (10.3.93):
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- British inventors set sights on Nintendo
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- A british invention will power a revolutionary computer games system aimed
- at challenging the domination of Nintendo and Sega.
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- The Interactive Multiplayer. To be launched in the autumn, is driven by
- a micro processor developed by Advanced Risc Machines (ARM), a company with
- a staff of only 30, based in Cambridge. ARM is 49% owned by Acorn
- Computers, makers of the BBC microcomputer, with most of the rest of the
- shares being held by the innovative US computer manufacturer Apple.
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- Some of the world's biggest media and electronics companies are behind
- the Multiplayer. It has been developed by 3DO, a new company formed
- by the US media giants Time Warner and MCA, with telephone operator AT&T,
- Matsushita of Japan and Electronic Arts, a leading publisher and developer
- of computer games.
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- Music
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- It will be much more powerful than the games consoles currently being sold by
- Nitendo and Sega. As well as computer games, the new system will be able to
- play music on compact disc and will come with software for teaching purposes.
- It will also be possible to watch films on CDs.
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- Unlike Nintendo and Sega, 3DO will license the technology of the Multiplayer
- to other manufacturers in an atempt to get it accepted as a world standard.
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- The fast growing market is worth some UK pounds 500 million a year in
- this country (UK) alone. The new system represents the second recent
- breakthrough for ARM. In June, its microprocessor was chosen by Apple
- to drive Newton, an all-in-one hend-held electronic diary, notebook,
- general computer and fax machine to be launched later this year.
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- Acorn's shareholding in ARM has been one factor behind the steep rise in its
- share price from 6p last February to 41.5p on Friday.
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- All spelling mistokes my own work.
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