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From: bh2@doc.ic.ac.uk (B Hogan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: ARM prices
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.115345.21981@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: 6 Jun 91 11:53:45 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.
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I have often heard it said that the ARM chip offers a higher cost/speed
ratio than other processors, but nowhere have I seen the prices of the
ARM 2+3 and the associated chips listed. Even the VLSI manual fails
to mention this small point! Can anyone give approximate values, and how
do these compare to other processors?

On a different tack, isn't it fun playing with the mode definer from the
Newcastle server? I managed to make a screen mode 1440x312 in 256 colours
on my standard Acorn monitor. It's completely useless of course, since
the disk drive and task manager are cut off the edge, but it was interesting
to see the Arc straining under the 22Mb/s DMA required by a 440K screen.
Time for seperate screen memory me thinks :-)

Bryan H.