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

[felipe valdez]

Despite a technical edge[*citation
needed<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>
*], the Archimedes only ever met a moderate success beyond the education
sector, becoming a 'minority' platform outside of certain niche markets.

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. <
dabenavidesd at yahoo.es> wrote:

> 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 <http://mc/compose?to=dabenavidesd@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<http://mc/compose?to=hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>>
> escribió:
>
> > De: Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com<http://mc/compose?to=hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>
> >
> > Asunto: Re: [M3devel] Yet Another OS in Modula-3, AVOCA, in x-kernel
> > Para: m3devel at elegosoft.com <http://mc/compose?to=m3devel@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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