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Love hearing about the people and stories involved with the creation of Acorn and ARM systems. As a kid I was a big fan of Acorn computers, and still have a sof
by mattkevan 7y ago
Love hearing about the people and stories involved with the creation of Acorn and ARM systems. As a kid I was a big fan of Acorn computers, and still have a soft spot now.
Back then I was really excited when the StrongARM processor came out. The RiscPC, which used it, was significantly more powerful than any previous Acorn and had an innovative case which you could expand by adding ‘slices’ to hold more hardware. It also included an optional 486 processor board to run Windows at the same time.
Remember seeing one machine that someone had expanded to over 15 slices and included a sandwich grill.
- LeoPanthera 7y agoThe “rocket ship” RISC PC. The top slice was a (working!) kitchen sink. http://www.john-ward.org.uk/personal/john/computers/html/rocket.html http://www.john-ward.org.uk/personal/john/computers/html/roc...
- mattkevan 7y agoThat’s amazing! I’m so glad that someone else remembers it (and that I remembered it fairly accurately 20-odd years later). Saw it in an issue of Acorn User and thought it was literally the best thing ever.
- pjbk 7y agoThere were some very nice early ARM-Linux boards based on it. For example, the LART was an open design made by a group at the Delft University centered on the SA1100. Pretty cool times especially if you were into embedded devices that could connect to the Internet. https://web.archive.org/web/20000816095212/http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/ https://web.archive.org/web/20000816095212/http://www.lart.t...