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by djthorpe
3125 days ago
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In my humble opinion, the home computer market fragmented into business machines (Amstrad's PCW and PC ranges) and gaming. Acorn and Sinclair [bought by Amstrad] failed to come up with the next generation of home computers. We now have the Raspberry Pi to fill the "home computer" niche but it's a very different proposition to the home computer of the 1980's. |
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Acorn did go on to come up with the next but one generation of computers, the 10 or so ARM cores in every smart phone.
In terms of defaults matter, shipping with a programming language by default is great. Also shipping with a 400 page manual explaining how to use that language was great, which Acorn did until about 1995 I guess.
I was the first person in my school to use the school computer. I can't say we had programming lessons that often, did Logo in secondary school, but only the graphical parts. But the teachers let us type in programs from magazines, learn ourselves. Depends on what teacher you had really, if they knew programming they probably taught it. That's what I do now.