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From: pl@etana.tut.fi (Lehtinen Pertti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,eunet.micro.acorn
Subject: Re: Acorn Computers anyone?
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Date: 12 May 89 09:16:37 GMT
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From article <1078@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>, by shaver@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Dave Shaver):
> (Sorry for the wide cross-posting; I'll keep it REAL short)
> 
> A few weeks ago I bought two Acorn computers.  This was the system the
> BBC endorsed for their TV-based computer training show.  With each of
> them I got two user's manuals.  The company which made these is long
> gone, so I'm wondering if anyone out there has ANY information on these

	eunet.micro.acorn is well and alive, as well as Acorn Computers
	which just released Unix based workstations.

	I think machines you have are from the earlier 6502-series.
	It is (I think, am I right?) essentially same as BBC-micro.

	Newer machines from Acorn ( Archimedes 410, 440 and R140 )
	are based on ARM-chipset (Acorn Risc Machine), which
	is very interesting processor.

	I plot some Mandelbrots with it, and basic program
	with soft-floats performed better than VAX compiled fortran.

					Pertti Lehtinen
					pl@tut.fi

	
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