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The end fate of Hobbit at Apple is not unrelated to ARM either (https://tompittard.com/media https://tompittard.com/media) : > "Tom Pittard and Paul Gavarini of ATG spotted the ARM architecture (late 1985), rightly inferring Acorn had shared 6502 experience and motives. Investigation began. Pittard and Gavarini went to work on the Möbius project. Their two-year effort created a board using a VLSI Technology ARM2 chip plus software emulating the entire Apple desktop computer lineup: a 6502 or 65C816 running Apple II code, and a 68000 running Mac code. All emulated code ran faster on the ARM2 processor than the corresponding native versions. ... Möbius terminated quietly - but Pittard kept the prototype in his office." ... "In the afterglow of Möbius, Tom Pittard did a presentation for Apple engineering teams on his benchmarks a few months after work halted. Heads turned. Of particular note were the results from Pittard's Lisp benchmarks on ARM2." ... "Tesler [Lary Tesler], a veteran of Xerox PARC and an expert on GUIs, saw Pittard's results. He grasped where the ARM architecture could take Newton [Apples first handheld device]"... "Tesler had an endgame in mind... He based that on the status of Hobbit [a competing processor design], Tom Pittard's ARM2 benchmark results, and roadmap discussions with the ARM development team."