The Phoebe 2100 (or RiscPC 2) was to be Acorn Computers' successor to the RiscPC,[1] slated for release in late 1998. However, in September 1998, Acorn cancelled the project as part of a restructuring of the company.
Processors running at 300 MHz were being sampled by Acorn in September 1998, with 360 MHz versions also expected.[1]
In November 1996, the design of what was to become Phoebe 2100 was started. The design took into account a number of perceived weaknesses of the RiscPC design, a slow memory architecture, limited I/O capability, limited expansion, and not adhering to industry standards.[3] To overcome these weakness a number of design objectives were created: harness the full potential of the StrongARM CPU, support multiple processors, add support for PCI expansion, offer the best possible graphics, run existing RISC OS applications, and provide enhanced RISC OS functionality. An additional design objective of reusing the same case as the RiscPC was dropped due to power supply requirements and electrical interference problems.[3]
To provide for these new capabilities Acorn had to design two new support chips for the system;
During 1997 and 1998, Acorn regularly took prototype and mock-up hardware to various Acorn computer shows, including Acorn World October 1997,[4] Wakefield Acorn Spring Show May 1998[5] and the Acorn Southeast Show June 1998.[3]
By May 1998, Acorn started to offer their 'Registered Developer' scheme members the chance to pre-order a pre-launch prototype for testing and development, these were offered at a £950 (excl. VAT)[6] a significant discount on the public price of £1500 (ex VAT) revealed in June.[7]
On 15 September 1998, the first Phoebe 2100 motherboards with silicon (rather than FPGA) based IOMD2 chips were powered up. They successfully ran at the full front-side bus speed of 64 MHz, and the improved performance of the video chip was also seen; however, various bugs in the sound DMA were reported and general system instability was noted. As such, no shippable prototypes were yet available to send to the 'Registered Developers'.[8]
Two days later, on 17 September 1998, the development of Phoebe 2100 was cancelled.
Development was expected to cost £2.1 million.[3]
During the years following the release of the RiscPC, Acorn had discussed using an alternative to RISC OS as their next operating system, using TAOS[9] or writing their own microkernel-based operating system Galileo.[10] However, for the launch of Phoebe 2100 an enhanced version of RISC OS would be developed, called RISC OS 4 (codenamed 'Ursula'[11]). RISC OS wouldn't support the multiple processor daughter cards that had been included in the Phoebe 2100 hardware specification.[4]
RISC OS 4 had to support the new hardware of Phoebe 2100 which wasn't present in Acorn's earlier machines;
In addition several new features were to be added to the core of RISC OS;
To prepare developers for the changes to the OS, Acorn released to its 'Registered Developer' program RISC OS 3.80, designed to load on Acorn's previous generation RiscPC and A7000 computers. This would enable developers to test that their software would be compatible with Phoebe 2100, provided it didn't require any of the new hardware features. RISC OS 3.80 was limited, it only ran on ARM6 and ARM7 RiscPCs and not StrongARM (ARMv4) based ones.[21] Testing of hardware compatibility would have to wait until an initial run of 100 or so pre-production machines was made available to Registered Developers.[22]
The Phoebe 2100 project used a series of names inspired by characters from the TV series 'Friends' as code names for the components.[23][24]
On 17 September 1998, Acorn finished a review of its business and decided to close the 'Workstation Division', the department developing Phoebe 2100, and all work stopped.[25][26][27]
Acorn Computers' CEO Stan Boland said, "There is not a big enough market for the PC (Risc PC 2), which is largely for home use and games. It's an enthusiast's product. We are going to resize the rest of the company and concentrate on becoming a digital TV and thin client company".[28] Computerworld Online News reported an Acorn spokesman saying "The problem was that it would have had a retail cost about twice as high as for a comparable PC".[29]
After cancellation it came to light that as few as 150 to 300 pre-orders had been placed.[30]
In the aftermath of the cancellation of Phoebe 2100 and Acorn Computers' change in direction from general computing to set-top box development and DSP silicon design[31] there were several attempts to resurrect some or all of the Phoebe 2100 hardware or RISC OS 4 development.
Of these, the only successful group was the Steering Group who, after initially being interested in releasing the Phoebe 2100, realised it would be financially prohibitive and set about creating a new company RISCOS Ltd. In March 1999, RISCOS Ltd negotiated a licence with Element 14, the recently renamed Acorn Computers,[32] and set about finishing the development of RISC OS 4. In July 1999 RISCOS Ltd launched RISC OS 4 to the public. It supported Acorn's RiscPC and A7000/+ machines.[33]
In addition, after the cancellation, excess stock of the Phoebe 2100 yellow NLX case was sold by CTA Direct,[34] sometimes including an NLX-compatible PC.[35]
The only known working Phoebe 2100 is held in the collection of The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, England.[36]
Ursula, RISC OS 4.00 (crippled developer release retroversioned as 3.8, see branch Ursula_RiscPC), 1997-8
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