[3][4][5] They featured an enhanced BASIC interpreter,[6] a slightly faster clocked CPU and more memory: 32 kilobytes RAM and 32 KB ROM was now standard, the Z80 is clocked at 3 MHz (quarter the 12 MHz crystal).

[5] They could also be extended with "high" resolution graphics (240×240 pixels at 2 bpp) using 16 KB RAM as video memory.

Luxor ABC 802 was a model with a small monochrome screen in yellow phosphor, intended for offices.

The ABC 806 is a version with main board, screen (DA-15) and keyboard (DIN-7) as separate units.

The result was that ABC 800's semi-compiling BASIC interpreter turned out to be faster than most other BASICs used in popular machines, especially when integer variables are used, the results for some well known computers were as follows (times in seconds): As seen from the table, the ABC 800 was approximately twice as fast as the IBM PC on floating point calculations, except for BM8 where it was only 20% faster.