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Re: Off Topic - BBC Micro Books
- Subject: Re: Off Topic - BBC Micro Books
- From: larwe <zwsdotcom@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:05:28 -0800 (PST)
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On Nov 22, 12:13 pm, jonny <jo...@no-email.org> wrote:
> The BBC Micro, the first machine to use an ARM processor as used in a
> billion devices today.
Well, except that the BBC Micro did not use an ARM - it was 6502 (or
6502+coprocessor) based. The Archimedes was an evolutionary descendant
of the Beeb, yes, but "BBC Micro" means either a BBC Model A, Model B
or Master.