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qwertyuiop924 on Nov 28, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learning to Read X86 Assembly Language

Huh. The Spectrum was popular elswhere because it was so comically cheap.

mangamadaiyan on Nov 28, 2016 [–]

Relatively speaking. It was definitely much cheaper than a PC Clone with an 80286 processor, but expensive enough to be a luxury, I think.

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