Of course, everyone knows the most important computer war was between Acorn and Sinclair. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92 Thanks to pompous Sir Clive's fallout with his ex-sidekick, the cigarette-chuffing Chris Curry, the UK got to enjoy a continual dust-up between the two biggest home computer companies of the early 80s. Acorn vs Sinclair had the lot: 6502 vs Z80; elistism vs affordability; skunk-works development vs glossy buildings; establishmentism vs the underdog. And into the bargain they introduced not only the earliest home computers using gate array chips; a generation of UK games programmers, but also the preeminent mobile RISC cpu: the Advanced Risc Machine. In comparison, Commodore vs Atari are just tiffs between best buddies ;-) -cheers from julz @P