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From: John Cartmell <>
Subject: Re: "I'm Being Deluged By Emails"
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:36:30 +0100
References: <wE3bb.1020$wS2.35039@eagle.america.net> <4c3520e1b3john@cartmell.demon.co.uk> <bkirop$km$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk> <4c355456c1john@cartmell.demon.co.uk> <bkn8hg$s1m$1@bob.news.rcn.net> <whewitt-F800EF.12132922092003@news1.ucsd.edu>


In article <>, Barbarossa
<> wrote:
> Martin Reboul <> wrote:

> > > > Quite! Most of my machine comes from various Far Eastern places,
> > > > such as China, Korea and Taiwan.

> Barbarossa:

> Apple, Dell, & Gateway (and others) all contract with Taiwan (and
> others) for the production of computers and screens. U.S. production of
> parts is somewhat limited - a notable example is IBM's new Fishkill, NY
> plant which fabs G5 processor CPU chips.

> John Cartmell <> wrote

> > > That's why I use hardware designed in the UK and software
> > > (including operating system.)

> Barbarossa:

> Like what, for instance?

RISC OS*. Continued development of the Acorn system using ARM processors
and the RISC (RISC OS) Operating System.

I use a StrongARM processor with RISC OS 4.02 but the latest machines use
X-Scale processor types with RISC OS 5.

[don't say X-Scale is for embedded machines - the ARM** design was
originally produced for (Acorn) desktop machines even though they can run
on the waste heat from Pentium processors]

*Reduced Instruction Set Computer(Chip) Operating System
**Acorn RISC Machines - Advanced RISC Machines

[Snip]

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John +44 (0)8700-519-527
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