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- From: neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: new PC's, what's happening acorn?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.104929.6255@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 10:49:29 GMT
- References: <9208120143.AA29852@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Sender: news@cs.hw.ac.uk (News Administrator)
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
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- In article <9208120143.AA29852@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> lithgow@upjomon.usl.com (Malcolm Lithgow) writes:
- >
- >If Acorn released an expensive, new machine now, no-one would buy it, and
- >it would be 'out of date' by the time people got enough money to buy the
- >thing. If Acorn releases minor improvements to their current range, and
- >quietly works on their new mega-machine until the recession breaks (in a
- >year or two?) then they'll have much more success. Of course, if the
- >recession never breaks, Acorn are in deep trouble (but who isn't?).
- >
-
- Depends on the market place.
-
- Despite what Ashley says, if Acorn were to launch a high end machine
- (has to be unix based or no-one will buy it : the A540 hasn't been a hot
- cakes seller has it !) the competition will be Sun, HP and DEC in the
- Unix workstation market, NOT Ferrari.
-
- Even despite the recession Sun are doing pretty good are they not ???
-
- Neil
-
- P.S. A cheap Unix box based on an 8Mb/200Mb/monitor A5000 at under 2 grand
- would be *popular* !!!
-