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Article #31308Re: Why the Atari ST "flame" was posted up...
From: Smee
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1988 11:01
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1988 11:01
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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.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!bath63!pes 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 References: <12045@brl-adm.ARPA> <463@csvax.liv.ac.uk> <1312@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <478@csvax.liv.ac.uk> <1244@uop.edu> <5412@well.UUCP> <1074@its63b.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee) Organization: AUCC c/o University of Bath Lines: 12