From: geoffrey@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (Geoff Thomas)
Subject: TECH: 32-bit, 4MIPS RISC machine
Date: 11 Aug 92 16:37:26 +1200
Message-ID: <1992Aug11.163727.273@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Organization: Computer Science,University of Canterbury,New Zealand



In article <BsKF1p.73x@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
broehl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl) writes:

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>>I have a 32bit RISC computer that does 4 mips.
>>The company that made it (Acorn) was a very forward thinking one
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>Are they still around?  If not, is anybody making reasonably-priced
>machines of equivalent horsepower?
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Acorn are alive and flourishing in the U.K. They now have a 20MIP
machine, the A5000 available reasonably cheaply (it slows down in
high-res modes, due to contention over the bus by the CPU and video
hardware). This could be what you need for VR, but I'm waiting for a
DEC Alpha-based workstation @ 400MIPS+.

Geoff Thomas