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by klelatti 1y ago
May also be of interest on the history of ARM - up to 1997: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-arm-story-part-1-fr... https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-arm-story-part-2-ar... https:&
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by klelatti 1y ago
> The PC Division was expected to make a lot of money while paying what was internally called “the blue tax.” In other words, corporate hit us with effective tax rates and metrics that basically made it impossible to compete with Compaq
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The PC was never a true 'IBMer'(thechipletter.substack.com)
78 points by klelatti 1y ago|126 comments
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GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search(simonw.substack.com)
52 points by klelatti 1y ago|13 comments
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Intel in Oz(thechipletter.substack.com)
2 points by klelatti 1y ago|0 comments
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by klelatti 1y ago
> I’m 21 now. I’ll be blunt: if not for gender-affirming care, I don’t know if I would be around. If there would be FOSS graphics drivers for Mali-T860 or the Apple M1.
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by klelatti 1y ago
> 'The UK’s Online Safety Act didn’t come from Parliament or the public' It was debated at length in parliament and it was voted into legislation by parliament. It was developed by a Tory government and has been implemented by
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by klelatti 1y ago
The people (about 2,000) are London based and work for a UK registered company so in both practical and legal senses the work is in the UK (eg employment taxes are paid in the UK). That the product of that work may be sold to another countr
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by klelatti 1y ago
> The registered HQ and a large research center are in London ... > so the work is, in practical and legal senses, U.S.-based... These two statements literally contradict each other in both cases.
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by klelatti 1y ago
The interpreter is doing a lot that you’ve not mentioned here; parsing the BASIC source code for example.
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by klelatti 1y ago
Thanks for the quote which is very interesting. Not being pedantic but this isn’t quite what your original comment said. Sophie is saying ‘same type’ of results and not having to use assembly for certain applications which doesn’t imply tha
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by klelatti 1y ago
With Datapoint’s own ISA of course!
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by klelatti 1y ago
100%! There is clear lineage back to the Datapoint 2200 which is remarkable given that it wasn't even an Intel design and CTC gave away the rights IIRC.
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by klelatti 1y ago
BBC BASIC wasn't JIT'd etc so not sure how all the Android comparisons come in! Just to make the comparison more concrete the ARM1 ran at 8MHz and was 32-bit and with a lot more registers compared to the BBC Micro's 6502 runn
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by klelatti 1y ago
> Well the ARM's original goal was to run BBC BASIC faster than the BBC B could run assembly code. That seems an unlikely goal given BBC BASIC was interpreted! Happy to be proven wrong but I've never heard one of the original t
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by klelatti 1y ago
8080 -> 8086 not compatible although assembly code translation was possible.
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by klelatti 1y ago
I can remember attending a meeting of the Cambridge University Computer Society (in 1985?) when a presenter from Acorn (Steve Furber?) talked about the new CPU they had developed. I think the right adjective for the reaction of those presen
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by klelatti 1y ago
So you’re saying that someone who worked in government on online regulation has carried on that interest outside at a charitable foundation and has had some influence in drafting this legislation? Not that surprising really is it? And all
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Chris Curry interviewed by Your Computer magazine (1981)(computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
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Tandy Corporation, Part 3(abortretry.fail)
69 points by klelatti 1y ago|23 comments
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by klelatti 1y ago
> He was named "Horatio" after his godfather Horatio Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (third creation), (1723–1809), the first cousin of his maternal great-grandmother Anne Turner (1691–1768). Horatio Walpole was a nephew of Robert
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Tales of the C: Retro Thoughts on the Seemingly Eternal Programming Language(goto10retro.com)
3 points by klelatti 1y ago|0 comments
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R2E and the Micral(abortretry.fail)
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by klelatti 1y ago
Thank you and particularly for the clarification! I'll update with a footnote to make it clear how the CRTs operated.
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Apple in China(thechipletter.substack.com)
3 points by klelatti 1y ago|0 comments
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Apple in China(thechipletter.substack.com)
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Personal Computer Origins: The Datapoint 2200(thechipletter.substack.com)
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Arm's Bifrost Architecture and the Mali-G52(chipsandcheese.com)
7 points by klelatti 1y ago|1 comments
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Intel: Winning and Losing(abortretry.fail)
2 points by klelatti 1y ago|0 comments
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Can Huawei Compete with CUDA?(chinatalk.media)
1 points by klelatti 1y ago|0 comments

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