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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday February 27 2018, @01:12PM (1 child)

    by TheRaven (270) on Tuesday February 27 2018, @01:12PM (#644599) Journal

    And Psion's EPIC.

    I note that hardly anyone has answered the 'favourite' part of the question, but that one (or, rather, EPOC, it's correct name) is mine - specifically EPOC16 (a.k.a. SIBO). It ran on a 4MHz 16-bit CPU with 256KB of RAM, ran a useable (though not WYSIWYG) word processor, a spreadsheet that's still probably my favourite (I actually still use it in a Psion emulator in DOSBox sometimes, because it's the only one I've used where keyboard navigation was easy), and came with a reasonable programming language (with support for structured programming). In spite of the tiny amount of RAM, it was a multitasking environment and still had RAM left over to use a RAM drive as the machine's primary storage (though I got a 128KB Flash SSD for mine as well - I remember not being able to fit the H2G2 text adventure on it).

    I'm almost tempted to buy a 3a or 3c now that they're so cheap on eBay, but for the fact that even emulating an x86, DOSBox would probably run the emulator fast on my cheap mobile phone than the real hardware would run. And, in the emulator, you can easily set the screen resolution to 640x480 (and the built-in apps scale to that resolution, so you can see a lot more without scrolling).

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday February 28 2018, @08:02AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Wednesday February 28 2018, @08:02AM (#645027) Homepage
    Yeah, that's the one. I'm *desperate* for a simple spreadsheet on this linux machine, and the Psion one would do perfectly. The only shit that seems available seems (a) dependent on gigabytes of modern gui libraries, or part of an even bigger "suite", that I don't want to install; or (b) unsupported, and so old it won't even build on a C99 compiler.
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