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- From: mcg@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Acorn's New Babies
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.112050.10489@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 11:20:50 +1200
- References: <9208310420.AA17552@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <9208310420.AA17552@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, lithgow@toy.usl.com (Malcolm Lithgow) writes:
-
- > Acorn, with two entire architectures to their credit since 1981,
- > doesn't seem to be doing that bad to me.)
- >
-
- Umm, they based their original machines around the 6502; noting that this was
- (one) of the cheapest near-the-top-of-the-line "home-user" chipsets to base a
- computer on in the early 80's.
-
- When Commodore/Atari released the Amiga 500 (16 bit 68000 series chip set)
- in '86/'87 this was the death of 6502/Z80 based computers for the home user
- market. In fact, I reckon that the introduction of the Mac in '84/'85 was the
- start of the collaspe with the coup de grace given by Commodore/Atari with the
- Amiga.
-
- If I recall correctly, if Acorn hadn't produced the Archimedes series
- they would've gone the same way as Sinclair.... down the tubes.....
-
- From Martin Glanvill (mcg@waikato.ac.nz)
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