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From: pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Why the Atari ST "flame" was posted up...
Message-ID: <2326@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Mar 88 11:01:44 GMT
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Our experience (University of Bristol, but this is **NOT** an official
University statement) is that the Archie indeed runs like a bat out of
hell if you program it in BBC (interpreted) BASIC, or of course in
assembler; but that it slows right down (painfully) if you try any other
(of the very few available) high-level languages.  Given that it is said
to be specifically designed and tuned for Beeb BASIC, that seems reasonable.

And (personal opinion here) like all recent Acorn products, it is
desperately overpriced.  It's not at all clear which niche of the market
they think they are going for.  I have a feeling they may fall into a
crack.