Prototype Acorn Unix-powered A680 lands on eBay By Daniel Jones. Published: 16th Aug 2009, 15:11:46 | Permalink | PrintableA rare Acorn A680 running an ARM port of BSD 4.3 has hit online auction site eBay with a minimum opening bid of 100 quid. According to the seller, believed to be ROL's Paul Middleton, there are only a half a dozen of these pre-production systems left in existence. The A680 was developed by Acorn for Olivetti in 1988, and features an ARM2, 8MB of RAM, a 66MB hard drive and an early version of Acorn 4.3 BSD Unix kernel in ROM. Click here to visit this news quickie Previous: Dual-head DVI ViewFinder graphics card announced
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