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Learning to Read X86 Assembly Language
How many of you lot know the ZX line? Spectrum? No?
The ZX Spectrum and its clones were very popular in the UK, Eastern Europe, and the former USSR.
pjmlp
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They also ruled in Portugal and Spain. Almost no C64 in sight beyond a few computer magazines.
mangamadaiyan
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... and for a brief period of time in the late '80s, "popular" in India as well. (I quoted popular because they were bloody expensive. In 7th grade, a kid in my class had one. He was the only one in all of the school to have a computer.).
qwertyuiop924
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Huh. The Spectrum was popular elswhere
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it was so comically cheap.
mangamadaiyan
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Relatively speaking. It was definitely much cheaper than a PC Clone with an 80286 processor, but expensive enough to be a luxury, I think.
qwertyuiop924
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Yeah. AFAICT, most of HN (myself included) is US based. So I was curious.
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The ZX Spectrum and its clones were very popular in the UK, Eastern Europe, and the former USSR.