Re: ARM-based desktop computer ? (Hybrid computers ?: Low + High performance ;))

Re: ARM-based desktop computers do exist and the platform still has active

>participants. > >Most of the hardware we run on is now old - but the operating system (RISC >OS) can run under emulation. > >There is a new board: the Beagle board
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which can >run RISC OS (it's been ported) > >The main advangage of the ARM processors is that htey are high >performance/power so are optimum for mobile use - not for desktop use!

Canon P&S cameras uses an ARM processor ;) Makes my little camera working off a pair of AA cells smarter than the PCs I was using in the '80s.

Grant.

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The irony is that Acorn (ARM was originally Acorn RISC Machines) designed not only world-class hardware but a matching OS.

When Acorn stopped trading, ARM Ltd continued and RISC OS is now severely limited as there are no modern desktop computers to run the OS on. In many ways it is still the most friendly OS.

There are seversl n.g.s devoted to it and still very active: comp.sys.acorn.announce comp.sys.acorn.apps comp.sys.acorn.hardware comp.sys.acorn.misc comp.sys.acorn.networking comp.sys.acorn.programmer

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