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Comment Great memories ! (Score 2) 208

Great memories with this computer. And it was so far ahead of all competitors : even the predecessor of the Acorn BBC B (the Electron) already had 2Mhz and 32KB RAM and was networkable using a thing called Econet.
The BBC B+ could be expanded up to 128KByte and had a second processor (we're talking 1986 !!!!), teletext-reader, lightpen that allowed you to draw by using a pen on your screen (think tablet !) and so on.
And then Archimedes with its 32-bit RISC CPU came in 1987 (!), doing 4 MIPS and offering a Windowed operating system that booted from EEPROM instantly (switch it on and it's there).

Any mobile device with an ARM chip (think Android, tablets, Blackberry, etc.) is based on the architecture that was spawned in the 80s by Acorn (ARM = Acorn Risc Machine).
I'm glad and privileged to have worked with those great devices !

Comment Re:Waiting for the Acer A1 phone (Score 1) 181

Funny that the first citywide mobile phone was introduced in Japan (1979) and Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in 1981. US followed 2 years later. And I'm not even talking about 2G, G3, G3+ and G4 standards, where the gap is even bigger.
Oh and you probably think Nokia is an American company... and T-Mobile probably is American in your mind too ?
Also noteworthy : the first American company on the list of largest mobile phone networks is at #13.

Wake up and look outside... there's more to see outside the US than inside !

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