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Although Acorn designed the ARM chip in 1983 as the Acorn RISC Machine, in 1990 it was changed to Advanced RISC Machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Hold

by lsllc 2y ago

Although Acorn designed the ARM chip in 1983 as the Acorn RISC Machine, in 1990 it was changed to Advanced RISC Machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Holdings#Name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Holdings#Name

bee_rider 2y ago
Bah, they can change the official name, but we know the truth. Anyway, they don’t sell machines. They sell designs.
acheron 2y ago
They can’t do that, no matter how much corporations try.
- fsckboy 2y ago
  they did it to RAID and the Inexpensive did completely disappear
  - bee_rider 2y ago
    What’s it been replaced with?
    - fsckboy 2y ago
      redundant array of independent disks and when you look at the prices of them (the setups for hotswapping) you'll go with that
mark_undoio 2y ago
I quite like that Acorn still sort-of has that reference living on in the modern world. Acorn is a local company for me - a load of my colleagues / contacts through the local tech scene worked there. It's also a company whose products I originally saw in school when I was about 8 years old - they were the fancy computers, the ones kids like me weren't allowed to mess with.