From: Paul Jakma (paulj at domain itg.ie)
Date: Thu 20 Jul 2000 - 14:22:41 IST
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Foley, Brian (Galway) wrote:
> Roots eh? ARM originally stood for Acorn Risc Machine.... The instruction
> set was first simulated on a BBC Micro in 1985 or thereabouts, and showed up
> in silicon in the ARM2 in the Acorn Archimedes in 1987....
>
yeah.. no idea how that went. DEC must have done some work with Acorn, and
bought some core designs from them. But the StrongARM was a completely new
core though and designed in-house by DEC afaik[1]. Perhaps the 'ARM' bit
was kept to show it's roots?
> Don't give me all this new fangled 'Advanced Risc Machines' stuff :-)
>
ARM lives!!! :)
> Cheers,
> Brian (thems were the days..)
>
[1]. there are DEC tech journals about the design and verification of
it. Esp. wrt to the low-power optimisations.
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