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- From: phudv@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr R B Birkby)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: A couple of questions.
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 16:38:45 -0000
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- andyf@uk.sun.com (Andrew Fox - Sun UK - Answer centre) writes:
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- >Acorn are, in fact working on a replacement for the A540, and it should be with
- >us quite shortly.
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- >It is currently called 'Victoria', in line with Acorns policy of naming machines
- >after Australian cities (Brisbane - A5000, Perth - A4, Adelaide - A30x0).
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- >The prototype machine has an ARM610 running at 66Mhz in it, 8Mb of ram (with slots
- >for up to 64Mb), VIDC20, and a slightly newer version of RISC OS 3.
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- Most of this information seems obvious but why would acorn want to sell a
- product with the ARM610 ?
- Surely an ARM600 with a FPU integrated or an external coprocessor bus would be
- the best choice. Acorn wouldn't use this in a prototype either, they'd
- construct a CPU board akin to the one in early A3010's with FPU support.
-
- This sure does sound a nice machine though, especially the 66Mhz ;-)
-
- Richard.
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