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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!keele!nott-cs!smb
- From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Acorn Press Release 1 of 8 (Summary)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.191104.9697@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 19:11:04 GMT
- References: <18101@acorn.co.uk> <1992Sep1.151201.15236@odin.diku.dk>
- Organization: Nottingham University
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1992Sep1.151201.15236@odin.diku.dk> torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen) writes:
- >aglover@acorn.co.uk (Alan Glover) writes:
- >
- >>The A4000 incorporates an 80MB hard drive and
- >>allows the use of low-cost mini-expansion cards for the
- >>first time in an Acorn three-box system.
- >
- >What interface standard is this? In what way are the cards low-cost?
-
-
- The cards are the same as used in the A3000 - 8 bit internal fitting.
-
- I get the strong impression that the A4000 was very much a late addition
- to the Acorn family. I have various items of Acorn literature which
- mention the A3010 and A3020, but not the A4000 (eg RISC OS 3.10 Release
- Notes). Also at the pre-release demonstrations, it was fitted with a
- standard A5000 keyboard (so I am told), whilst at the actual launch it
- was fitted with a PC standard keyboard.
-
- Regarding all of the new machines, will it be possible to increase their
- speed at all? ARM250 is not particularly fast, and I would doubt if an
- ARM3 could be fitted. Perhaps we will have to wait for future developments?
-
- Simon.
-