Phoenix information (archive 1998/9)

News and rumours, information and speculation on the future of RISC OS and the Acorn platform. From acornusers.org in association with ANS and Convergence.

This site will highlight important information from the comp.sys.acorn.* newsgroups, and elsewhere on the web, which relates to future Acorn/RISC OS computers and projects. Contents currently includes:

The original news from Acorn with links to comments and other coverage.
Related announcements from Acorn dealers, developers, and organisations.
Updates on the status of the Phoebe and proposed rescue attempts.
Posts by Peter Bondar.
Other interesting posts.
Information on other systems which have been mentioned.

Updates

Details of R7500 Acorn clone released. (05 May 1999)
With less frantic developments this site has become less important. Although it will continue to be available as an archive, and major announcements will be added, new newsgroup posts are no longed being included. See the Acorn Cybervillage for Acorn related news sites.
RISCOS Ltd acquires license to develop and release RISC OS 4, see new riscos.com web site for details. (05 Mar 1999)
Added Launch of The RISCOS Foundation and Ursula features. (14 Feb 1999)
Added posts about RISCOS Ltd. to announcements. (28 Jan 1999)
Element 14 launched. (14 Jan 1999)
Acorn have sold their 50% stake in Xemplar for £3m. (08 Jan 1999)
Added details of Wimp2 RISC OS preemptor to interesting posts. (08 Jan 1999) (Update: Wimp2 is now available.)
Added post about Element 14 Ltd registering the domain name e-14.com to interesting posts. Is this Acorn's new name? Also added R 15 COS and RISC OS 4 articles. (02 Jan 1999)
Acorn announce RISC OS 4 will be released in January 1999, for users of current StrongARM Risc PCs. (24 Dec 1998)
Added a copy of ~~FT articles~~, reporting Acorn have set up a £2m Bristol research centre, have left the PC market, and will drop the Acorn name next year. (17 Dec 1998)
Also added to interesting posts: information on lazy task swapping and its effects, a summary of articles in the FT, and a mention of The RISC OS Foundation. (17 Dec 1998)
Added Steering Group announcement about a meeting re RISC OS 4 to announcements. (02 Dec 1998)
Acorn Cybervillage has posted a text version of the announcement and mentions the Steering Group's plans to create a new company to promote RISC OS. (30 Nov 1998)
Matt's Acorn midlands show report includes a picture of an Acorn press release, saying that "Acorn and the Steering Group have commenced a new initiative" relating to RISC OS. Details as they become available. (29 Nov 1998)
Added link Tower Electronics pulls out of the Acorn market to announcements.
Added PhoenixOS and Phoebe questionnaire to announcements and two interesting posts, including Stuart Halliday mentioning an announcement is probably due within 7 days. (29 Oct 1998)
Dealer/Developer Steering Group steps back upon learning that Acorn is now negotiating directly with another company from the Netherlands, announcement added. Also market research questions. (14 Oct 1998)
Added report from the Phoenix group meeting to announcements. (13 Oct 1998)
Added report of no new Acorn Sibelius to interesting posts. (10 Oct 1998)
Added ChiBER announcement to announcements. (05 Oct 1998)
Added three new interesting posts: further benchmarks, article from Microscope, and consideration of DSM multiprocessing. (26 Sep 1998)
Added preliminary report from Phoenix meeting to announcements. (25 Sep 1998)
This page was rapidly approaching 20KB in size so I have split the site in to several sub pages. Updates to any page will be listed here. (25 Sep 1998)

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. -Dr Robert H Goddard