From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 2 22:36:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from noop.colo.erols.net (noop.colo.erols.net [207.96.1.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B25014F4F; Sun, 2 May 1999 22:36:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjp@noop.colo.erols.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=noop.colo.erols.net) by noop.colo.erols.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10eBPN-000Mpx-00; Mon, 3 May 1999 01:36:49 -0400 To: paul@originative.co.uk Cc: tanimura@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp, nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de, zinnia@jan.ne.jp, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Call for Review: Voxware midi driver for serial ports In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 02 May 1999 22:19:23 BST." Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 01:36:49 -0400 Message-ID: <87788.925709809@noop.colo.erols.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG paul@originative.co.uk wrote in message ID : > The Acorn used a 6502. They went on to produce a box in the UK called the > BBC Computer. It was *way* ahead of it's time, I still have it in the > garage. Graphics resolutions that were better than the IBM PC that came > later, 3 channel sound capability, the ability to add a second processor, an > OS that was really neat. It was one nice piece of kit, ahh nostalgia. Hrm? If it was '93, it was more likely to be the Archimedes, which came out in '87 or '88. That used the ``ARM'' home-grown processor. In '93, it could have even been an ARM3. The ARM2 ran at a whopping 8MHz! (well, it was 12MHz I think, but after DRAM refresh (which paused the CPU, from memory) it was effectively 8MHz) Gary (who misses well-designed computers like the BBC B and Archimedes. Makes the PC look like a pile of components which fell into a case and somehow managed to work) -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message