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

[Daniel Alejandro Benavides D.]

Hi all:

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:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes#Significance_and_impact

Thanks in advance

--- El lun, 19/12/11, felipe valdez <dataf4l at gmail.com> escribió:

De: felipe valdez <dataf4l at gmail.com>
Asunto: Re: [M3devel] Yet Another OS in Modula-3, AVOCA, in x-kernel
Para: "Daniel Alejandro Benavides D." <dabenavidesd at yahoo.es>
CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com, "Hendrik Boom" <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>
Fecha: lunes, 19 de diciembre, 2011 19:37



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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