It has "built in" office applications, word processor, spreadsheet, database and office graphics, and can run a cut-down version of the Sinclair QL's SuperBASIC.
However, the way that ICL designed the memory map and the base memory of 128K really cripples the machine.
After the OS and base applications are running you're lucky if you have 50K left.
You can add 64K more memory, but that's in two 32K chunks.
The ROM and the ROM cartridge slots take up a lot of the address space but are not in nice contiguous blocks. Whoever thought the design up wasn't really thinking straight or thinking about an expandable product or one which could be developed further. It's not even cost reduction efforts, it's just silly.
Oh, and the OS allocates memory in 512 byte "blocks".
It almost sounds like it was a 1970s mini-computer designer who was asked to build the thing and based it upon a 1960s system. Should have had a paper tape reader.
Intro retro computers since before they were retro...
ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
Collection now with added Macs, Amigas, Suns and Acorns.
