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Microsoft was there first, but handled it so poorly it got memory holed. edit: I forgot about the A in ARM.
by Kye 4y ago
Microsoft was there first, but handled it so poorly it got memory holed.
edit: I forgot about the A in ARM.
- moffkalast 4y agoIt cost them an ARM and a leg.
- SllX 4y agoNah, Acorn was first.
- chasil 4y agoI think the Newton was the first major use of the architecture outside the Acorn Archimedes. "...an advanced, low-power processor was needed for sophisticated graphics manipulation. He found Hermann Hauser, who had developed the Acorn RISC Machine that utilized what became known as the ARM architecture, and put together Advanced RISC Machines, now Arm Ltd." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton Around this time, DEC also chose to implement their StrongARM, so that pushed into embedded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM
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