[M3devel] Yet Another OS in Modula-3, AVOCA, in x-kernel

[felipe valdez]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. <
dabenavidesd at yahoo.es> wrote:

> Hi all:
> Well indeed, that they sell like 200 copies of ARX Acorn/Olivetti (besides
> 100 or so developers on the developer machines):
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?set=custom&viewmonth=200909&viewday=&forum_name=png-mng-implement&style=nested&max_rows=75&submit=Change+View
>
> If so, they didn't release because of the cost issues were very important
> as you can see in this 01:30 video
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11082701
>
> Anyway the history behind that system is on this machine:
>
> http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/Computers/A500.html
>

"CPU Clock8MHz"

alt+f4.



>
> 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:
> http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/docs/Acorn/Tech/Acorn_FastA500s.pdf
>
> 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).
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> --- El mar, 13/12/11, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> escribió:
>
> > De: Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>
> > Asunto: Re: [M3devel] Yet Another OS in Modula-3, AVOCA, in x-kernel
> > Para: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> > Fecha: martes, 13 de diciembre, 2011 17:38
> > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 09:54:50PM
> > +0000, Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. wrote:
> > >
> > > But the best is still unknown they worked hard in UI
> > toolkits, at
> > > Olivetti, collaborative Windowing systems, and that
> > even that wasn't
> > > released as well, what does that mean, that nobody
> > used it?
> >
> > If they didn't release it, no one could use it.  So
> > why did they not
> > release it?
> >
> > -- hendrik
> >
>



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