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- From: alla0008@student.tc.umn.edu (Graham Allan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: New machines
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.020225.29514@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 02:02:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.131513.12073@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jabell@nyx.cs.du.edu (James Bell) writes:
- >
- >Thanks for all your replies to my last messages.
- >Somebody told me recently that new machines from
- >Acorn may use an 80486 processor for graphics work,
- >working with the VIDCII to free up the ARMXXX. This
- >sounds like pure imagination - could it be true?
-
- Sounds kind of unlikely to me - after all, a second ARM600 or whatever
- would cost a fraction of an 80486!
-
- Graham allan@mnhep8.hep.umn.edu
- gta@st-andrews.ac.uk
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