[HN Gopher] Acorn ARM Evaluation System
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       Acorn ARM Evaluation System
        
       Author : nickt
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2022-12-04 15:06 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | LeoPanthera wrote:
       | EDIT: Removed most of my complaints because I misread the page.
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       | The ARM Evaluation System was the first product that anyone could
       | buy with an ARM processor in it. It wasn't for normal end users
       | though, it was designed to allow developers to build ARM software
       | before the Acorn Archimedes workstation was released.
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       | It attaches to the BBC Micro, which supported external processors
       | via the "Tube" interface from the outset. Faster 6502 processors,
       | and Z80s for running CP/M were the usual upgrades. Later you
       | could connect a 286 to run DOS.
        
         | ectopod wrote:
         | It was the first ARM product but it wasn't the first RISC
         | product.
        
       | Gordonjcp wrote:
       | 2 meg of RAM was really a lot of ICs back in those days.
        
       | self wrote:
       | The first chapter of this video shows more of this (or a similar)
       | system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re5xAqgKqc0
        
       | cstross wrote:
       | Ars Technica is currently publishing an episodic non-technical
       | history of the development of ARM:
       | 
       | Part 1: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/a-history-of-arm-
       | par...
       | 
       | Part 2: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/a-history-of-arm-
       | par...
        
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