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gaius on Jan 29, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: AMD reveals its first ARM processor: 8-core Optero...

For pure computation a Spectrum can match a C=64, but as soon as any of the Commodore's hardware assist kicks in, game over for the Speccy.

rbanffy on Jan 30, 2014 [–]

And the QL-inspired Spectrum+ and 128 remain some of the most beautiful 8-bit computers ever built. I love that keyboard.

Commodores and Ataris of the time had very clever ideas about expansion. The intelligent peripherals are a brilliant idea and we should have done more of that.

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