The first ARM I spent quality time was on a StrongARM SA1110 dev board. Interesting stuff, but very mobile focused and the toolchain left much to be desired.

The first ARM I spent quality time was on a StrongARM SA1110 dev board. Interesting stuff, but very mobile focused and the toolchain left much to be desired. People do forget that ARM had pretty stiff competition from MIPS and to a slightly lesser extent SuperH at the time. There was a lot of innovation and a fun time to be mucking around. SA-1110 ended up not being a fit for what we wanted to do, and in the end I did other things, but worthwhile experience.