Toby Thain wrote:
  In the case of the BBC Micro ... it meant that schools
could have
 installations of CP/M business software to familiarise students with
 WordStar, Turbo Pascal, and other tools that they'd soon encounter 
And, the whole core principle of the Tube, you could use the BBC
computer as a simple I/O system for non-6502 development. The
initial development for the Archimedes line was done with an
ARM coprocessor on a BBC. I did a lot of ZX Spectrum Z80 coding
with my BBC Z80 CoPro.
JGH