Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Acorn Archimedes" in English language version.
[...] further differences, one of major importance. This is the SCSI connector on the rear of the SCSI interface card [...] Internally, provision has also been made for Genlock and similar video digitiser boards to be connected directly into the Archimedes.
Acorn rates it at four million instructions per second (MIPS), and the instructions we are counting are not the little ARM instructions, but the equivalent of the instructions of a DEC VAX-11/750, the company says.
The DMA Address Generators can only address 512kBytes
EMCEE's task will be to build on Acorn's strength in Irish primary schools and increase the company's presence in secondary schools, where the main competition comes from Apple Macintosh computers.
[...] further differences, one of major importance. This is the SCSI connector on the rear of the SCSI interface card [...] Internally, provision has also been made for Genlock and similar video digitiser boards to be connected directly into the Archimedes.
The particular models available were the A305 and A310, with 0.5 MB and 1 MB of RAM respectively, and the A440, with 4 MB of RAM.
an "active" cable (Acorn Product Code AKA77) is available via Acorn dealers
All ARCHIMEDES systems have a floating-point emulator as standard. On the 400 Series, complex mathematical calculations can be further enhanced by the addition of a floating-point unit (FPU).
Many composers bought an Archimedes simply to have access to the program.
