<font face="courier new,monospace"><br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dabenavidesd@yahoo.es">dabenavidesd@yahoo.es</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all:<br>
Well indeed, that they sell like 200 copies of ARX Acorn/Olivetti (besides 100 or so developers on the developer machines):<br>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?set=custom&viewmonth=200909&viewday=&forum_name=png-mng-implement&style=nested&max_rows=75&submit=Change+View" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?set=custom&viewmonth=200909&viewday=&forum_name=png-mng-implement&style=nested&max_rows=75&submit=Change+View</a><br>


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If so, they didn't release because of the cost issues were very important as you can see in this 01:30 video<br>
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11082701" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11082701</a><br>
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Anyway the history behind that system is on this machine:<br>
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<a href="http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/Computers/A500.html" target="_blank">http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/Computers/A500.html</a><br></blockquote><div><br>"CPU Clock8MHz"<br><br>alt+f4.<br><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">


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It seemed that the Acorn had not released because of cost issues rather than marketing reasons, since the selling machines were not ready for its system:<br>
<a href="http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/docs/Acorn/Tech/Acorn_FastA500s.pdf" target="_blank">http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/docs/Acorn/Tech/Acorn_FastA500s.pdf</a><br>
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But the compiler (I think called CAMEL) was not to blame, since it had a pretty good performance in terms of the chip (yeah it was but even not that fast for such machines cost relation). Later it wasn't released for some other reasons (would I know why, I guess they just took C route).<br>


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Thanks in advance<br>
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--- El mar, 13/12/11, Hendrik Boom <<a href="mailto:hendrik@topoi.pooq.com">hendrik@topoi.pooq.com</a>> escribió:<br>
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> De: Hendrik Boom <<a href="mailto:hendrik@topoi.pooq.com">hendrik@topoi.pooq.com</a>><br>
<div class="im">> Asunto: Re: [M3devel] Yet Another OS in Modula-3, AVOCA, in x-kernel<br>
> Para: <a href="mailto:m3devel@elegosoft.com">m3devel@elegosoft.com</a><br>
</div>> Fecha: martes, 13 de diciembre, 2011 17:38<br>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 09:54:50PM<br>
> +0000, Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > But the best is still unknown they worked hard in UI<br>
> toolkits, at<br>
> > Olivetti, collaborative Windowing systems, and that<br>
> even that wasn't<br>
> > released as well, what does that mean, that nobody<br>
> used it?<br>
><br>
> If they didn't release it, no one could use it.  So<br>
> why did they not<br>
> release it?<br>
><br>
> -- hendrik<br>
><br>
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