Thanks so much for coming back. I wondered if I was missing something in what Hermann was saying! It must have been interesting to work with Sophie. I remember

Thanks so much for coming back. I wondered if I was missing something in what Hermann was saying! It must have been interesting to work with Sophie. I remember looking at some disassembly of the BBC Basic 6502 code and being fascinated by how she got such good performance out of it. Does your 16032 still work? Must be fairly rare if it does! I was at the Uni at the time ARM was launched. Remember going to a University Computer Society meeting where I think (my memory is a bit vague at this point) Steve Furber presented the first Arm. No one could quite believe what they'd done. I'm working on a series of articles for my blog on the early days of RISC. Comparing with the other RISC architectures it's really interesting how they differ. I think Sophie / Steve did a fantastic job of turning RISC into a practical and cost effective reality. I've just had a twitter conversation with Ben Finn (of Sibelius music software fame) who was saying how pleasant writing ARM assembly was!