Staying alive in a niche market is about companies can do in such a tidal wave of commoditisation, and even IBM had to bail out eventually.
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On reflection, it was probably inevitable that Acorn were going to get steamrollered by the sheer mass and inertia of the IBM PC and all the clones that followed.
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Re: "zippy performance, something the original BBC Micro was not famous Jim 59Ĭomplacent? As in designed a brand new RISC processor and (for those days) very fast computer complete with a full graphical operating system using such things as scalable typefaces in the shape of the Archimedes? All on a small fraction of the resources available to the industry giants. You would not expect a favourable comparison between a Model T and a Mondeo. Sure it's slow in comparison to machines that came later than it, but that is completely expected. I was even able to write a full Dec VT52 emulator in Basic that was as fast as the commercial terminals of the time. The major drawback was it's relative lack of memory. I admit that benchmarking the Basic did not give a true indication of speed, but even if you look at the graphics speed and capability, the Beeb was the fastest and most capable home micro of it's time. And a comparison with the C64, Apple ][, Spectrum et. In the following years, the original IBM PC, which was a (admittedly crippled) 16 bit system running at twice the clock speed, did not manage to better the Beeb (I have the figures in front of me, but I can't be bothered to type them in).
In it's time, the BBC micro was pretty much at the top of the PC World Basic benchmarks for a couple of years. "zippy performance, something the original BBC Micro was not famous for"
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