Date   : Fri, 05 May 2006 20:14:53 +0100
From   : Christopher <c.r.dewhurst@...>
Subject: Re: [Off-Topic] Acorn Reborn!

In message <SERVERUL43Kiibwb7Gd00000100@...> you wrote:

> Apologies for the non-BBC 8-bit posting, but I thought that it might be of
> interest to some on the list nevertheless:
> 
> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/05/05/acorn_computers_reborn/
> 
> The link contents for those reading on non graphical systems:
> 
> That one-time pioneer of British home computing Acorn is to sprout once
> again. The creator of the Atom, Electron, Archimedes and BBC Micro machines,
> of the ARM chip company and of the RISC OS is to be revived next week as a
> purveyor of notebook PCs.

[Snip]

Well while they are about it they could put an ARM chip
in and make it the world's first native laptop running
RISC OS. If that were to come true I would buy one as
would a fair few other RISC OS users. Otherwise it's just
using the Acorn name to put more money into Bill Gates's
pockets.

Regards
C.



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