Date   : Sat, 06 May 2006 00:51:09 +0100
From   : "Austin Pass" <austinpass.bbc@...>
Subject: Re: [Off-Topic] Acorn Reborn!

On 5/5/06 17:09, "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk@...> wrote:

> To what end, though? Nobody these days can design a machine from scratch with
> bespoke software - no matter how good it is, even if totally blows the doors
> off the PC-based competition there's still no way it can succeed.
> 
> All I can ever see them doing is selling rebranded PC laptops running the
> worst OS code on the planet - which seems like a sad end. Would have been
> better to leave us with our memories IMHO :-(
> 
> The one glimmer of hope is that you're right and they've acquired technology
> rights - in which case hopefully they'll do the right thing and put that in
> the public domain so that we can better maintain all our old kit!
> 
> cheers
> 
> Jules

All entirely fair points.

But whilst we're wishing.....

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31476

Regards,
Austin.