Acorn RiscPC 600 (OT - only 5 years old)

_*GREAT*_ Find - this machine is like the only surviver of the 80s and idependant architecture era - own hardwar, own os, own CPU and designed for a customer market .... The Archimedes machines from Acorn have been (are!) _very_ popular in the UK (of course), but also somewhat over here in Germany, France and the Netherlands. After The decline of the Atari ST, Acorn remaind as the sole suplyer of non-PC Machines. (check http://www.atari-computer.de/mjaap/computer/emu_acor.htm Even the Atari Scene have a lot of sympathies for this neat little boxes - a rare ocasion in the world of OS vs. OS and Machine vs Machine flame wars :) (and check http://www.hi.is/~thj/oldfiles/arc.html - you got it - a page from the far north :) Like in the ol' days, the OS resides completly in ROM. For the Hardware thing, its an ARM 3 running at 40 MHz with 200 meg HD, 4 meg DRAM, 1 meg VRAM, (and possibly a 80486 or Pentium add on) For the processor there is a usable Book from Addison Wesley called ARM System Architecture (ISBN: 0-201-40352-8) check http://www.apdl.co.uk/index.htm for software and infos - a great source. also look at http://www.apdl.co.uk/phoebe.htm about new OS releases (Acron has cut their development of hard/software last year down to nada) Other sites to check: http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~schooten/software/Rindex.html and http://www.poppyfields.net/acorn/ I don't know if Acorn itself still offers insight: http://www.acorn.co.uk But at least ARM should haf tech specs for the CPU http://www.art.acorn.co.uk It's a RISC CPU, the ARM3 - one of the most interesting (and most succesfull) RISC concepts (BTW, the Newton uses also members of the ARM family, and DEC used to codevelop the StrongARM, a _very_ succesfull low power high throughput CPU - now manufactured my INTEL :) Anyway, you're just lucky ! Gruss H. -- Traue keinem Menschen der 5 Tage blutet und immer noch nicht tod ist.