Mark wrote: > > You are so incredibly wrong. About? That the Archimedes uses ARM processors, um, no. Acorn designed the original ARM processor. The A in ARM originally stood for "Acorn". That my A7000 is an embedded device in disguise? No, it's a full desktop machine, uses standard RAM, standard IDE hard drives, has a VGA connector and PS/2 ports and such. It was sold as a desktop computer in the 1990's, but the RISCOS based machine running with ARM processors are still around. > Clearly, the ARM systems you're referring to are > NOT general-purpose computing devices, but special-purpose imbedded > devices. > Hmmmm... the facts don't really support your assertion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risc_PC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_A7000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_OS http://www.castle-technology.co.uk/castle/front.shtml But then, you don't seem to have done an awfully large amount of research on the matter. M _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
