3 ms·
> the first ARM on the desktop, which doesn't just compete, but in many aspects beat current x86 chips I think the first ARM on the desktop title goes to the A
by Aaargh20318 5y ago
> the first ARM on the desktop, which doesn't just compete, but in many aspects beat current x86 chips
I think the first ARM on the desktop title goes to the Acorn Archimedes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes). It kicked ass back then as well:
> A mid-1987 Personal Computer World preview of the Archimedes based on the "A500 Development System" expressed enthusiasm about the computer's performance, that it "felt like the fastest computer I have ever used, by a considerable margin"
- _ph_ 5y agoWell, in this millenium :). And while I remember the Archimedes well, this was another day and age and unfortunately it failed to gain much traction back then. A lot of bad tech could have been avoided, if it had become main stream. I fondly remember the times, when there were plenty of competing processor architectures, almost every one more interesting than the x86 architecture.