Date   : Sat, 06 May 2006 13:09:26 +0100
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: [Off-Topic] Acorn Reborn!

Yes, I'd be very dubious about it all.  It looks to me like a company
using the Acorn brand to flog machines which have no connection
with the history of the company.  One site said they would be
using Intel processors in their new machines.  Why would any true
Acorn successor use Intel over ARM?

Best wishes,


Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Ripley
To:  BBC-Micro Mailing List <bbc-micro@...>
Sent:  Sat, 06 May 2006 01:04:09 +0100
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] [Off-Topic] Acorn Reborn!

Christopher wrote:
> 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.

It seems like a lot of the news sites, and the organisers of the trade 
show are completely oblivious that this company trading under the name 
'Acorn Computers Ltd' bears no relation to the former Acorn Computers 
Ltd who are still trading under a different name.

Check out:
http://www.iconbar.com/comments/news698.html
http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1594.html

> 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.

What was the Acorn A4 if not a ARM based laptop running RISC OS?

Regards,
Jon
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