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The BBC was made by a company called Acorn (where Wilson worked), and after the BBC they wanted to go 32-bit but were unhappy with the Motorola offerings of the
by beagle3 7y ago
The BBC was made by a company called Acorn (where Wilson worked), and after the BBC they wanted to go 32-bit but were unhappy with the Motorola offerings of the time - so they designed their own brilliant low power processor for their “Archimedes” machine.
They later spun the processor division off, calling it “Acorn RISC Machines”, where Sophie Wilson still works - except, it was shortened to the acronym, ARM. Yes, that ARM.
- bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y agoAnd during the initial development of ARM, a BBC Micro was used for writing an ARM simulator. After the successful production of the ARM chip, the BBC Micro was still used as a monitor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro_expansion_unit#ARM_Evaluation_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro_expansion_unit#ARM_E...