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          Joe  wrote:

> The nice thing about the Acorns was a decent BASIC with a built-in
> assembler. I eventually bought a PC and was astounded that I had to
> *buy* a useful programming environment, all it came with was GW BASIC,
> which wasn't great. I took the Delphi path, which is why I've never
> more than dabbled in C.

Get yourself a Raspberry Pi, install RISC OS on it, and enjoy those
pleasures again - but the OS and the BASIC have had the benefit of
many years of improvement since the Archimedes days.

David

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