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BBC Micro: The Ancestor to a Device You Are Guaranteed to Own (retrogamecoders.com)
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[โ€“] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It was a great computer. People remember Commodores and Ataris for the games, but the BBC Micro's BASIC implementation was much better, and it had some great software too.

The ancestor thing I guess is because Acorn went on to invent the Acorn RISC Machines architecture, which became Advanced RISC Machines and eventually ARM. So Acorn, which started as a tiny hobbyist company, is behind the processors inside billions of phones and other devices today.

[โ€“] zwerg@feddit.org 4 points 9 months ago

Android runs a tiny hobbyist written kernel too!