Re: is Vax addressing sane today

In article <2024Oct8.081459@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:

Somewhat to my surprise, I just read that there was
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_iX>, which would work on many
(but not all) Archimedes models with some additional hardware (in
particular, a hard disk), and that they sold complete workstations
like the R140 that included this hardware ...

Acorn did not try hard to sell RISC iX to industry, even in the UK. I
remember knowing that it existed, and I /might/ have seen it running at a
computer show. Acorn was, by 1990, seen as a specialist educational
supplier. They may have sold some into universities, but I've never
encountered anyone who'd used them.

John