There must be some rose-tinted glasses in the retrospective pipeline here. Even assuming a generous IPC advantage, a 12Mhz ARM wasn’t likely to be competitive w

There must be some rose-tinted glasses in the retrospective pipeline here. Even assuming a generous IPC advantage, a 12Mhz ARM wasn’t likely to be competitive with a contemporaneous SPARCstation @ 40Mhz or an Intel 486DX2 @ 50Mhz.