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- From: idg10@phx.cam.ac.uk (I.D. Griffiths)
- Subject: Re: A couple of questions.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.172516.25581@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Sender: idg10@cl.cam.ac.uk (I.D. Griffiths)
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- Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
- References: <6646@falcon.ukc.ac.uk> <14054@texsun.Central.Sun.COM> <1ius6lINNk5g@clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:25:16 GMT
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- In article <1ius6lINNk5g@clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, phudv@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr R B Birkby) writes:
- |> ... some blurb about A540 replacement.
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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 ;-)
-
- Well, he only said that the PROTOTYPE is using an A610. I was under the
- impression that Acorn aren't about to release any A600 type machine's, but
- are waiting for the bigger and better (700 or 800) processors. In the
- meantime, rather than twiddling their thumbs, they are building prototypes
- around what is currently available, so that they can have something good
- to try out the new chips on when they appear.
-
- This is speculation based on a rumour that Acorn won't be release Arm610
- machines. Don't know how accurate it is.
-
- Ian Griffiths
-