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Reminds me of Acorn, where Sophie Wilson describes they travel to the US to visit a chip/CPU design shop. Their expectations are not met when they find only a
by the-dude 6y ago
Reminds me of Acorn, where Sophie Wilson describes they travel to the US to visit a chip/CPU design shop.
Their expectations are not met when they find only a couple of guys in a plain office building.
They decide they can do it themselves and design the ARM1.
- Symbiote 6y agoApple collaborated with Acorn on the ARM610, back around 1990. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Advanced_RISC_Machines_Ltd._%E2%80%93_ARM6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Advanced_RISC...
- ljosifov 6y agoARM was probably the only realistic CPU Apple could put in the Newton PDA, at about that time. Apply had a large stake in the company. Amusingly, it is possible that selling that stake latter, saved Apple - this https://www.cultofmac.com/97055/this-is-how-arm-saved-apple-from-going-bust-1990s/ https://www.cultofmac.com/97055/this-is-how-arm-saved-apple-...