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Kind of amusing, considering that the ARM architecture was originally created for desktop computers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#History http
by jcl 16y ago
Kind of amusing, considering that the ARM architecture was originally created for desktop computers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#History
- rythie 16y agoI remember we had these in Acorn machines, when I was at school in the 90s (in the U.K.). They were always very fast I remember. They were replaced with PCs later on, but due to the budget the school was on, these ending up being much slower at the time but that was most likely due to Windows needing a lot more memory than RISC OS did.
- megablast 16y agoThey were fast, but they were not necessarily faster than x86 machines. They were RISC compared to CISC(old x86), so hard to compare them directly.
- rythie 16y agoI'm pretty sure it was to do with the RISC OS being lightweight memory wise than anything. I had some good spec'ed PCs at that time but those relatively cheap Acorn machines were always faster in basic OS tasks.
- regularfry 16y agoAs far as I recall, at least part of that was down to hardware acceleration. They were still awesome machines, though. Fantastic for learning assembler on.
- nitrogen 16y agoARM did originally stand for Acorn RISC Machine, so it makes perfect sense that your Acorn machines had ARM processors :).