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From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman)
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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
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_iX>, 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