26 Nov
2007
26 Nov
'07
8:06 p.m.
Hi,
>....the Beeb is a fairly formidable system to
understand....
Is it? Why? Are you talking abotu understanding how to
program it, or
understanding the hardware?
The hardware.
It's a very clever design, but looking at it from the point of view of
someone who's just learning about computer electronics, I think it would
look pretty daunting. The 64 is a much simpler system.
I think the Beeb would make an ideal SECOND system once they've got "the
bug".
....has 64K*4 RAM, which is fiddled by the ULA to look
like 32K*8
to the processor. I am not joking.
I'd forgotten about that....did anyone ever figure out how much of a
performance hit the machine took because of that?
TTFN - Pete.