Subj : Magic smoke update
To   : Bob Worm
From : Spectre
Date : Sat Oct 14 2023 06:27:00

 BW> The Acorn (A3020) uses an ARM 250 - apparently the first system on a chip.

I tend to think of them as Beebs that have been working out... so I stand
corrected.  While we had Beebs here... the last one I saw, I sold to an Irish
visitor and he took it back to Ireland from Australia.... so it kinda went
home. That was about 30 years ago... they're not very common here.  I'm
unsure I've seen an actual Acorn here at all.

 BW> I think that's why I love it so much. Computing heritage aside, it's a 32
 BW> bit RISC running at 12 MHz so it's not bonkers level restrictive and even

That far exceeds what I expected...

 BW> I'll have to get a 6502 head on when I "properly" start work on the BBC,
 BW> though. That'll require a level of coding efficiency that I can only
 BW> aspire to at this point!

I used to aspire to assembly, but never really got my head around it. Just
had to make do with BASIC.  Just remember functionality is 95%, and the other
IBM idiom... it might be slow, but it sure is hard to use :)

Spec


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