On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:48:14PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > * Caoilte O'Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030214 03:46]: > > > Hey All, > > > I have a hankering for a bbc emulator, but was a bit shocked to just > > > realise that there isn't one in sid. > > > > ] 2 definitions found > > ] > > ] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02) [foldoc]: > > ] > > ] BBC > > ] > > ] {British Broadcasting Corporation} > > > > Well, surely that' can't be right. > > > > ] > > ] > > ] > > ] From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms December 2001 [vera]: > > ] > > ] BBC > > ] Broadband Bearer Capability (B-ISDN) > > > > That I don't quite understand. Is that what you mean? > > I think he's referring to a 1980s British-made microcomputer > colloquially called "BBC". I don't recall offhand what its real name > was.
It was called the BBC Microcomputer; it was made by Acorn and sponsored or something by the BBC, as an educational thing. Schools got grants to buy either BBCs or RM 380Zs - nobody bought the RM. It used a 6502, and had an interface to hook up second processor units; you could get a faster 6502, a Z80 or a 32016 32-bit chip. Apart from being a bit short of program memory when you used hi-res graphics modes, the BBC was the absolute dog's bollocks of home micros. It was the only one to have any approximation to a real operating system as opposed to a BASIC interpreter and very little else. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]