<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi all:<br><br>I think the same applies for the all market of the day, still ARX was on the market through some other companies products, how can you be so sure, it wasn't that as well:<br><br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes#Significance_and_impact<br><br>Thanks in advance<br><br>--- El <b>lun, 19/12/11, felipe valdez <i><dataf4l@gmail.com></i></b> escribió:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>De: felipe valdez <dataf4l@gmail.com><br>Asunto: Re: [M3devel] Yet Another OS in Modula-3, AVOCA, in x-kernel<br>Para: "Daniel Alejandro Benavides D." <dabenavidesd@yahoo.es><br>CC: m3devel@elegosoft.com, "Hendrik Boom" <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com><br>Fecha: lunes, 19 de diciembre, 2011 19:37<br><br><div id="yiv1891155531"><font face="courier
new,monospace"><br></font><br><div class="yiv1891155531gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dabenavidesd@yahoo.es" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=dabenavidesd@yahoo.es">dabenavidesd@yahoo.es</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv1891155531gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; 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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank" 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">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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11082701">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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/Computers/A500.html">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="yiv1891155531gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; 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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/docs/Acorn/Tech/Acorn_FastA500s.pdf">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 rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:hendrik@topoi.pooq.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=hendrik@topoi.pooq.com">hendrik@topoi.pooq.com</a>> escribió:<br>
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> De: Hendrik Boom <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:hendrik@topoi.pooq.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=hendrik@topoi.pooq.com">hendrik@topoi.pooq.com</a>><br>
<div class="yiv1891155531im">> Asunto: Re: [M3devel] Yet Another OS in Modula-3, AVOCA, in x-kernel<br>
> Para: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:m3devel@elegosoft.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=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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