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I remember one quote from Hermann Houser (one of the founders of Acorn)... "I gave them two important things to develop the Arm chip. I gave them no money, and

I remember one quote from Hermann Houser (one of the founders of Acorn)... "I gave them two important things to develop the Arm chip. I gave them no money, and I gave them no people". It's amazing what necessity can accomplish...

kens 6y ago
That's reminiscent of the famous "janitor" letter written by IBM's president Watson in 1963. He asked why the CDC 6600 was a better computer than IBM's when Seymour Cray's team had "34 people including the janitor" while IBM had a "vast development effort". Cray's response (probably apocryphal) was, "It seems like Mr. Watson has answered his own question." https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/supercomputers/10/33/62 https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/supercomputers/10...