Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: is Vax addressing sane today Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 14:11 +0100 (BST) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <2024Oct8.081459@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> Reply-To: jgd@cix.co.uk Injection-Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:11:24 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="48d2c7c6740890d464e625e232fb4ba8"; logging-data="2320740"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/ePW8nhcQoWExSKnj+gmr3Qd/fRsRoFxY=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:JvnVWmXm2n4JUH2PTpcv47LKlgY= X-Clacks-Overhead-header: GNU Terry Pratchett Bytes: 1638 In article <2024Oct8.081459@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>, anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote: > Somewhat to my surprise, I just read that there was > , which would work on many > (but not all) Archimedes models with some additional hardware (in > particular, a hard disk), and that they sold complete workstations > like the R140 that included this hardware ... Acorn did not try hard to sell RISC iX to industry, even in the UK. I remember knowing that it existed, and I /might/ have seen it running at a computer show. Acorn was, by 1990, seen as a specialist educational supplier. They may have sold some into universities, but I've never encountered anyone who'd used them. John