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I had an Archimedes! It was amazing. Weird to think how many billions of ARM chips there are now. Another 40 million made every day apparently.

• rbanffy 8y ago
  IIRC, at launch time, its floating point performance was close to a Despro 386 with a 387 coprocessor.
  • codeulike 8y ago
    Is that good or bad?
    • setquk 8y ago
      That was pretty good as it didn't have a floating point coprocessor at launch and was entirely software implemented. You could buy a card with an AT&T WE32206 copro for it which made it pretty damn fast. I think they had dedicated copro socket later on. I didn't buy one because all of them were stupid expensive.
    • SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
      The Archimedes absolutely blew the popular 16-bit 68000 machines (Ataris and Amigas) out of the water, that's for sure. Although to be fair it was more expensive.
      • codeulike 8y ago
        I had BASIC games I'd written for the BBC Model B and when I ran them on the Archimedes everything moved around the screen too fast to see. It was amazing.