10 May
2012
10 May
'12
7:26 a.m.
Newcastle upon Tyne University had R260-badged machines booting some
flavour of Unix in the early 1990s. I don't remember any A680s though.
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
was
Was it? What about the A680? (No, I don't have
one. I have narrowly
missed getting one twice :-()
Like the M4, I don't think the A680 was ever commercially released; it just an in-house dev platform for RISCiX.
There was the R260 which made it out into the wild though, and which ran
I thought the R260 was an A540 with RSICix installed, the hardware was
the same. Whereas the A680 is tolly differnt from any other Acorn ARM
machine.
I am pretty sure some A680s got out to universities (and I don't just
mean Cambridge).
-tony