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They were fast, but they were not necessarily faster than x86 machines. They were RISC compared to CISC(old x86), so hard to compare them directly.
by megablast 16y ago
They were fast, but they were not necessarily faster than x86 machines. They were RISC compared to CISC(old x86), so hard to compare them directly.
- rythie 16y agoI'm pretty sure it was to do with the RISC OS being lightweight memory wise than anything. I had some good spec'ed PCs at that time but those relatively cheap Acorn machines were always faster in basic OS tasks.
- regularfry 16y agoAs far as I recall, at least part of that was down to hardware acceleration. They were still awesome machines, though. Fantastic for learning assembler on.