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   -=> Bob Worm wrote to Sean Dennis <=-   
      
    BW> Oh, I could bore you for hours about my Acorn :)   
      
   All of that was very interesting to read.  There were some amazing machines    
   made with features well ahead of   
   their time.  I miss the near-instantaneous booting of a computer.  I know    
   those RISC machines were/are fast.   
      
   Writing your own terminal emulator sounds like fun and doing it in assembly is    
   amazing to me.  I know assembler   
   is fast--very fast--and is not tyhe easiest way togo but it works very well.   
      
   Thanks for sharing your love of Acorns.  I do know that the British pop group    
   Erasure still use a BBC computer   
   in their recording studio.   
      
   I have always been a firm believer in "newer isn't always better".  I guess my    
   personal love of retrocomputing   
   as well as my amateur radio hobby where my main radio is approaching 40 years    
   old but still works fine.  I wish   
   I was in that good shape...   
      
   -- Sean   
      
   ... You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish.   
   --- MultiMail/Win   
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