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The wierd thing about Acorn Risc Machines is that IBM invented the RISC architecture, and some Brits made it a product (200MHZ StrongARM). So the PowerPC is com
by zandorg 17y ago
The wierd thing about Acorn Risc Machines is that IBM invented the RISC architecture, and some Brits made it a product (200MHZ StrongARM). So the PowerPC is competing with the ARM, when the ARM came later! Pretty amazing story behind that chip.
- pyre 17y ago> So the PowerPC is competing with the ARM, when the ARM came later! How is that amazing? Unless they were created at the exact same time, one had to come after the other, and so long as they target the same niche they will compete.
- zandorg 17y agoJust because you'd assume IBM to win. I think the ARM story is probably best explained on Wikipedia, thus making my comments kind of not very useful. But for my opinion, I think the Psion portable computers and EPOC (the Psion OS) and Nokia made the ARM chip very popular.