[SC.LUG] Re: old box contest

[Richard Smedley]

Ian Molton said:

> The A500 is of a similar vintage to my Acorn A410/1 (although obviously
> the inferior machine, performance wise).
[snip]
> Features of note in the A500 were its 2D graphics stuff - it was some of
> the earliest /accelerated/ graphics around. The Archimedes had a 'dumb'
> framebuffer, and relied of pure power to make up.
>
> Perhaps when we have linux running on our respective machines, we should
> bring them both to a meet ;-)

If we've got a year or two free we could have a kernel compiling contest
on them 8-P

- Richard

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