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I'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 A

by rythie 16y ago

I'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 ago
As 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.