[lowbloodsugar]

I was programming the Acorn Archimedes with its 32 bit CPU in 1988. Took a while for everyone else to get on board tho.

[LeoPanthera]

There was a brief discussion on an Acorn forum semi-recently about "If there had been another BBC Micro, what would it have looked like?"

And the consensus was, probably it would have looked like the Acorn Archimedes. Acorn really got it right, and they got it right shockingly early.

[pjc50]

The BBC successor was the Acorn Archimedes, really - the only thing it lacked was the branding. Fit the same educational niche, spoke Econet, it even ran BBC basic.

[LeoPanthera]

One of the first ones didn’t even lack the branding. The A3000 was a “BBC Micro”. Even had red function keys.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Acorn_A3...