Sinclair QL computer mini by mta1212

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The QL (or Quantum Leap) was Sinclair's first attempt at a business machine. It was introduced in January 1984, following the successful earlier Sinclair computers, the ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum. Indeed it was the first home computer based on a 32-bit CPU, released just a few days before the Apple Macintosh. It differed from the previous Sinclair models quite substantially, as they had all been based upon the Zilog Z80 processor. The QL, however, had at its heart a multitasking system based upon the Motorola 68008 processor and an 8049 second processor. The operating system, QDOS, was regarded as innovative, and well ahead of its time.
It came bundled with 4 business programs written by Psion: Quill (a word processor), Archive (a database program), Easel (a business graphics and charts program), and Abacus (a spreadsheet). It also came with a BASIC interpreter in ROM, called SuperBASIC.