exciting as the 68000". Disillusionment was sufficient for some software producers to signal a withdrawal from the Acorn market.

Other commentators who responded to the B+ suggested that Acorn pursue the second processor strategy more aggressively, leveraging the existing user base of the BBC Micro while those users were still using the machine. In 1986, Acorn introduced the BBC Master series, starting with the Master 128 which re-emphasised second processors in the form of internally fitted "co-processors".