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Re: Happy Birthday Jupiter Ace

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On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:59:21 -0700 (PDT)
Geoff <gwearmouth@gmail.com> wrote:

> El Reg has a lovely in-depth article on the development of the Ace to
> celebrate its 30th Birthday.
> 
> http://www.reghardware.com/2012/09/21/jupiter_cantab_jupiter_ace_is_30_years_old/
> 

I always wanted one, and always wished I'd learned Forth. Now, after
reading that article, I *really* want one and *really* wish I'd learned
Forth. Bit late for the latter now, although I might have a nose around
t'interwebs and see what's what.

The trouble with the Ace - apart from the obvious: mono graphics after
the Spectrum came out, low memory (even if it “didn't need it”),
rubbishy ZX80-style case, etc. - was that despite the designers' genius
in getting a compiled, library-based language to work on cassette
storage, it was still a bit of a kludge. If they'd waited a couple of
years and used a more traditional implementation of the language on
floppies it might have been a different story.

-- 
Duncan Snowden.

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Happy Birthday Jupiter Ace Geoff <gwearmouth@gmail.com> - 2012-09-21 00:59 -0700
  Re: Happy Birthday Jupiter Ace "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2012-09-21 09:36 +0100
  Re: Happy Birthday Jupiter Ace Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2012-09-21 13:58 +0100
    Re: Happy Birthday Jupiter Ace Dylan Smith <dyls@alioth.net> - 2012-09-24 10:17 +0000
      Re: Happy Birthday Jupiter Ace Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2012-09-24 17:57 +0100

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