Phoenix archive

Interesting posts

Other interesting posts relating to Project Phoenix and the news that Acorn cancelled Phoebe.

List of improvements in RISC OS 4.00
Details of Wimp2, the RISC OS preemptor. (Google)
Element 14 Ltd. at Acorn's address have registered the domain name e-14.com - is this Acorn's new name? (Google)
As well as e-14.com, Element 14 Ltd. has also registered the domain names element14.co.uk and e14.co.uk, but not e14.com and element14.com (which were already taken), and neither element-14 nor elementfourteen (co.uk or com which are available) - confused yet?
Acorn were to auction the car number plate R 15 COS at Acorn World. (Google)
David Clare comments on the RISC OS 4 release. (Google)
Mention of the Steering Group organisation, and that the working title is The Risc OS Foundation (not RISC OS?). (Google)
Copies of articles in the FT about Acorn. (Google)
A summary of articles in the FT about Acorn. (Google)
Comments on the effect of lazy task swapping on an ARM610. (Google)
Paul Corke explains lazy task swapping. (Google)
Stuart Halliday mentions an announcement is probably due within 7 days, two groups are trying to raise money for Phoebe and RISC OS 4, and estimated percentage of Acorn users on the Internet, all in one post! (Google)
Rik Griffin writes a probable timeline of the Steering Group / Dutch company events. (Google)
There will apparently not be an Acorn version of the new Sibelius program. (Google)
The Case for Linux, an excellent article by Mike Kinghan, outlining the differences between two views of our future, Fundamentalist and Reformist, and why he is a Reformer. (Google)
Someone posts Phoebe benchmarks. (Google) [136.170.128.80 is at Acorn according to RIPE, and I think the Dejanews setup would also require access to clan@acorn.com mail for that to appear in the from header. However the Dejanews information could be forged if posted somewhere else along the path.]
Ross Tierney's guide to symmetric multi-processing (SMP) and why it won't work on ARMs. (Google)
Ross Tierney posts the URL of Forbidden Phoenix speculative specs. (Google)
Keith Hall quotes a reply from Stan Boland. (Google)
Nick Chalk mentions Archive's position and mailing list. (Google)
Former Acorn employee, Alastair France, comments on the restructuring. (Google)
Neil Spellings says many RISC OS 4 improvements require a StrongARM Rev.T. (Google)
Comments from Alastair France, one of the 60 made redundant, Acorn fundamentally is the people (Google)
Phoebe or Phoenix?, Reg Hems starts use of Phoenix to describe plans for future development. (Google)
Deja vu, Mark Moxon compares recent events with the closure of Acorn Australia and Acorn New Zealand. (Google)
Forbidden Technologies suggestions for a new system which kicked off a lot of discussion. (Google)
Chris Evans' reaction (Google)
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