Greetings to all Acorn enthusiasts. 

As you can gather by the silence from PM we have been very busy and 
regrettably we have not been able to reply to much of the mail. The good 
news is that we can inform you of a number of topics that you will no doubt 
find interesting! 

We have now recruited a full time manager to look after 'enthusiasts', which 
will mean that you will receive a better service from PM. 

The pivotal point of all things Acorn will be Acorn World 94, so please do 
come along and meet us there. We will be making a number of announcements at 
the show and in addition, to whet peoples appetites, we will be showing a 
number of exciting developments for and around Risc PC. 

We obviously cannot reveal the exact nature, delivery and pricing of 
products that will/could/may appear in two or three years time but we will 
be 'teasing' you with some of our R+D work as well as some of our 
collaborative work with third parties. 

Below are items of interest that we will be showing (subject to the laws of 
physics, s/w development, couriers, promises etc). 

-       A 'SIX' processor upgrade for Risc PCs including homogeneous and 
        heterogeneous support. 

-       A Risc PC ISA adaptor-set to allow Risc PC to use IBM ISA H/W cards. 

-       TAOS: a multi-processor micro kernel OS for use in hetero/homogenous 
        processor systems. 

-       A BSD port for Risc PC 

-       Arm 700/710, FPA 11 processors. 

-       PC cards (if Samsung can deliver the ASICs in time!) with a variety 
        of processors/speeds etc. 

-       16 bits mini sound cards / 32 bit SCSI cards / 24 bit video cards etc. 

-       ATM links / ISDN links to Acorn House 

-       WEB browsers for Risc OS 

-       Support of alien servers for Risc OS e.g. NT Server, OS/2, Windows 
        for Workgroups/NFS etc. 

-       CD ROM support and authentication for Access 

-       Video phone links 

-       We will be featuring the ultimate home HI-FI/Set-Top Box/Computer 
        lounge of the future staffed by our resident Lounge Lizard AKA Neil 
        Gardner 

-       Over the top Risc PCs with the ultimate accessory (come to the show 
        to see what it is!). 

-       Risc PCs with 7 slices; Risc PC as servers 

-       Risc OS supporting GT 512 MB partitions 

-       3D rendering s/w for use in differing applications! 

In addition we will announce all the details on the Acorn enthusiast scheme 
(and reveal its real name!). You will be able to sign up on the day and 
receive the ultimate goody bag (please bring #15 along for that). People 
signing up at Acorn World will be entered into a competition for one of 
three prizes: 

        the first six processor expansion card; 
        the first ARM700 with FPA11 in the public domain; or 
        the first PC card with the fastest processor we can fit. 

All the above are prototype status and supplied as is (so you may require 
your own debugging/development organisation!). 

Official press releases and data sheets will be made available on our FTP 
site for your delectation. 

We do hope you will all come and visit us at the show with the most exciting 
line up of goodies in Acorn's history. 

Yours 

Product Marketing.         
P...@acorn.co.uk 

DISCLAIMER: all of the above is subject to revision/deletion/change and 
nothing should be construed as a commitment to provide any of the above as 
products through Acorn or its Agents. No other entity is authorised to 
commit Acorn to any of the above. All information is given in good faith and 
is representative of the facts as known at the time. 

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