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From: csan@its63b.ed.ac.uk (A Ness)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Why the Atari ST "flame" was posted up...
Message-ID: <1074@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Mar 88 12:02:59 GMT
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Reply-To: csan@itspna (Andie)
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Edinburgh
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>
>	If the Archimedes ever makes it to the States, I'm gonna take a good
>look at it.  If Dave's any expert (and he is), it should be one very
>impressive system.
>

The Acorn Archimedes is well worth a look at. It is said to be the fastest
micro ever produced and having seen it, I am inclined to agree.
As a demonstration, Acorn include a GEM-like desktop which runs faster than
GEM on the Atari and best of all, include the source because it was written
in BASIC (yuk). Its a fantastic machine.

By the way, I still love my Atari!

--Andie.

Andie Ness . Department of Computer Science ,Edinburgh University.
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