Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!mcsun!ukc!cam-cl!news From: nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nicko van Someren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: R140 & ARM3 Keywords: R140 SCSI RISCix Message-ID: <1991May23.102331.844@cl.cam.ac.uk> Date: 23 May 91 10:23:31 GMT References: <1991May11.102642.20136@cl.cam.ac.uk> <1991May20.132705.15628@gec-rl-hrc.co.uk> <10434@castle.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nicko van Someren) Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK Lines: 19 In article <10434@castle.ed.ac.uk> gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (G Toal) writes: >In article gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Dave Gilbert) writes: >:On the subject of upgrading RiscIx. Well not exactly. There was an Acorn >:Demo here about a week or so ago - they said that the A540 would be >:upgradable to an R260 - for about #900-#1600 - this includes a 100MB hard drive >:which it is loaded on. > >Oh no, not again. WHAT ABOUT JUST THE SOFTWARE, ACORN??????? As I recall the reasone Acorn can not sell just the software is that the Licence they have on the original sources stops them from doing so. I think that selling a preloaded disc is a very good compromise (if not what AT&T had in mind when they wrote the contract). Furthermore you get a free Connor 100MB drive into the deal ;-) Nicko +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Nicko van Someren, nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk, (44) 223 358707 or (44) 860 498903 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+