Reply to post: The Archimedes was a brilliant machine.

Roughly 30 years after its birth at UK's Acorn Computers, RISC OS 5 is going open source

Alan Bourke

The Archimedes was a brilliant machine.

Way ahed of its time. I wrote a music tracker on it that worked with four tracks of samples, in BASIC. Try doing that on a Miggy or ST.

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