Date   : Wed, 04 Aug 1999 08:45:00 +0100 
From   : John Simpson <Simpson.J@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn

On Wednesday, August 04, 1999 3:29 AM, Michael Foot
[SMTP:mikef@...] wrote:

> When the Archimedes came out, it was well ahead of everything else. It
even
> had a 32 bit operating system 8 years before Microsoft produced W95. Even
> though the Archie had a BBC logo on it, it was completely up to Acorn to
> market this new machine.

Michael's point, that Acorn were out of their depth in marketing terms
without the BBC name, is backed up when you look at the success of their
other non "BBC branded" products:

- Electron
- Communicator
- Unix workstations
- Netstation

etc

john