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		rythie on Jan 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nvidia announces Project Denver ARM CPU for the de... I'm pretty sure it was to do with the RISC OS being lightweight memory wise than anything. I had some good spec'ed PCs at that time but those relatively cheap Acorn machines were always faster in basic OS tasks.

regularfry on Jan 6, 2011 [–]

As far as I recall, at least part of that was down to hardware acceleration.

They were still awesome machines, though. Fantastic for learning assembler on.

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