From: etienne@xs4none.nl.invalid   
      
   On 2006-06-21, slorrin@gmail.com  wrote:   
      
   > ZX spctrum, whether it has or has not got a CPU, doesn't have adequate   
   > scrolling or sprite capabilities.. but more than any one thing, the SID   
   > chip makes the commodore the ultimate machine.   
      
   Some interesting trivia: The ZX Spectrum not only lacks a CPU, so it can   
   not qualify as a computer, it also doesn't have chips to produce video   
   or sound.   
      
   Don't forget the ZX Spectrum was build during the cold war in east   
   European countries and because of that cold war no microchip technology   
   was allowed to be exported to those countries.   
      
   That's why the ZX was only populair in Soviet countries: they didn't   
   have anything else.   
      
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