Re: I *wanted* an Acorn Archimedes when I was at school...
"If Acorn had been successful on the desktop, perhaps that wouldn't have happened?"
If ARM hadn't been spun off as a seperate company Acorn could have used some of its profits to develop and showcase a proper rival to the PC. They might only have ended up with a single digit percentage of the market but thats all Apple ever attained and look at it now.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
