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  1. Re:Nice to have a 4 core CPU by Dienyddio · · Score: 1 · on ARM Unveils One-chip SMP Multiprocessor Core
    Ask Simtec what their plans are they already offer a number of ARM development boards.

    Other companies offering ARM based computers include Ionix and MicroDigital. If you have the cash anything is possible...

  2. Same idea as MicroDigital: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Tulip to Relaunch C64

    http://www.microdigital.co.uk/alpha.htm also reviewed here: http://www.iconbar.com/comments/view.php?id=353&ty pe=n

  3. Re:I hate the Apple ][... by mirko · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Celebrating 26 Years of the Apple ][

    Well, we, former Acorn users, would not like being given the impression we are as much cursed as our Amiga fellows. :-/
    Acorn is dead, RiscOS is not that well : seeing the most recent RiscOS computers can be emulated at full speed on a Celeron is just another evidence I had to switch to OSX...

  4. Re:Give it a couple of days by crok · · Score: 1 · on Castle Technology UK Ripping off Kernel Code?

    Or if you have a grudge against Castle, there's always the Microdigital Omega which may be released one day...

    Both companies produce ARM7500FE boxes, as does RiscStation limited, but these are relatively slow. All of these machines run RISC OS 4 (although Omega is claimed to have RISC OS 5). Castle seem to be the most organised company ATM.

  5. Re:Iyonix PC by crok · · Score: 1 · on Castle Technology UK Ripping off Kernel Code?

    That's nothing. The Microdigital Omega has a real time clock with day, date, month and year!

  6. Re:why?? by Hairy+Dude · · Score: 2, Interesting · on First Desktop Computer To Use Intel's XScale
    The real point is that Intel don't guarantee future supplies of old-style 26-bit StrongARM processors, since their only market would be in RISC OS machines, which wouldn't be profitable. And XScale is not binary compatible with them.

    So, hardware developers have been toiling to design 32-bit XScale-based RISC OS-compatible systems, while RISCOS Ltd. created a 32-bit version of the OS and software authors are using their tools to port their programs to XScale. The Microdigital Omega has a dual processor design, incorporating a 26-bit StrongARM and a slot for an XScale.

    The Iyonix is the first pure XScale machine.

  7. Acorn by Jhan · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Build Your Own PowerPC?

    You need to check out the Acorn community (or perhaps that's where you're coming from?). Acorn was an English Arm-based home computer of the late 80's that competed (none to sucessfully, outside Britain at least) against Amiga an Atari.

    Even though the Acorn community is now shriveled enough to make Amiga look healthy by comparision, they have been the one and only group pushing Arm-based desktops over the last decades.

    There seems to be at least a couple hardware resellers still in operation. The pricing didn't seem to extortionate to me, either.

  8. Re:Compete with Windows? by rjw57 · · Score: 3, Informative · on RISC OS Select 1st Release Out
    Will I be able to walk into CompUSA and buy a PC with an ARM CPU in it?

    Probably not but ARM based computers have been available in the UK for as long as the ARM existed (the lamented Acorn Computers invented it after all). You can still get Risc PCs and even older Acorn machines on eBay and you will be able to get The Omega soon. These machines have a small but fanatical following here in the UK, mostly due to their large presence in educational institutions.

  9. Re:Acorn RISC Machine by PyRoNeRd · · Score: 1 · on Compaq Transfers Alpha to Intel
    I think there was an ARM second processor for the BBC micro (they had lots of options there). And they released an ARM card for the IBM PC in 1986

    But of course the main use the ARM found in the '80s was the Acorn Archimedes line of computers, which were for a while the fastest desktop computers in the world.

    The Archimedes, with the neat RiscOS operating system, continued to be built in the '90s, later under the name of RiscPC until Acorn folded in 1998 (just as they were poised to release their Phoebe prototype as a successor to the RiscPC).

    However the architecture and OS lives on (as a minority in the soon-to-be released MicroDigital Omega. They have the benefit that the (Strong)ARM processor found other use in PDA's and the like and soon they will also be able to use the Intel XScale chip with RiscOS.

  10. Re:Pentium and StrongARM are NOT comparable! by YoungRob · · Score: 1 · on Linux Running On Intel XScale CPU
    Intel's StrongARM microcontrollers versus their Pentium microprocessors

    What??? Take a look at the original link XScale Processor and you'll see the're not talking about a microcontroller but a microprocessor. Semantics, maybe, but the facts are that it is a capable microprocessor used in desktop hardware, not just a microcontroller destined for life controlling a washing machine.

    Of course, the nice thing is that the StrongARM core also gets embedded into chips that look like microcontrollers, but are really embedded processors. We are talking a seriously different league to the good ol' 68HC11!

    Other than that I entirely agree with your comments :-)

  11. Re:But can you still buy it? by innit · · Score: 1 · on Anti-Aliased Text in X11 Continued

    > But can you still buy it?

    http://www.riscos.com/index1.htm
    http://www.riscos.com/risc_os_4/order.pdf

    > Or even get hardware to run it on?

    http://www.atomwide.co.uk/products/riscpc.htm
    http://www.riscstation.co.uk/html/products.html

    ... not to mention the recently released Microdigital Omega [picture] (at RISC OS 2000), a truly excellent machine. The death of Acorn was not the death of RISC OS, no sireee.

    There's even a Slashdot style site for RISC OS at http://www.iconbar.com/

    Stuii!

  12. Re:But can you still buy it? by innit · · Score: 1 · on Anti-Aliased Text in X11 Continued

    > But can you still buy it?

    http://www.riscos.com/index1.htm
    http://www.riscos.com/risc_os_4/order.pdf

    > Or even get hardware to run it on?

    http://www.atomwide.co.uk/products/riscpc.htm
    http://www.riscstation.co.uk/html/products.html

    ... not to mention the recently released Microdigital Omega [picture] (at RISC OS 2000), a truly excellent machine. The death of Acorn was not the death of RISC OS, no sireee.

    There's even a Slashdot style site for RISC OS at http://www.iconbar.com/

    Stuii!

  13. Re:But can you still buy it? by innit · · Score: 1 · on Anti-Aliased Text in X11 Continued

    > But can you still buy it?

    http://www.riscos.com/index1.htm
    http://www.riscos.com/risc_os_4/order.pdf

    > Or even get hardware to run it on?

    http://www.atomwide.co.uk/products/riscpc.htm
    http://www.riscstation.co.uk/html/products.html

    ... not to mention the recently released Microdigital Omega [picture] (at RISC OS 2000), a truly excellent machine. The death of Acorn was not the death of RISC OS, no sireee.

    There's even a Slashdot style site for RISC OS at http://www.iconbar.com/

    Stuii!