Mikio L. Braun

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Given my current fascination with ARM, this is a great talk I found on the history of the first ARM chips and the Acorn computers they were designed for: media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10703-t…

The Ultimate Acorn Archimedes talk

This talk will cover everything about the Acorn Archimedes, a British computer first released in 1987 and (slightly) famous for being the...

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Jul 08, 2020 · 21:34 3 7

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I personally "grew up" with Motorola 6502 and 68000 processors. Intel was always sort of the "evil empire". I did some assembler programming on Commodore computers and on the Amiga, but never on PCs.

Jul 08, 2020 · 21:35 1

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Later at university we had a whole lecture based on the book by Patterson and Hennesey which was also around RISC architecture, so that's definitely closer to me than x86... Nice to see it is making comeback ;)

Jul 08, 2020 · 21:36 2

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I also really like how they did low level hack to make things work. IIRC the Amiga also had the video modes and the processor clock tightly interlocked.

Jul 08, 2020 · 21:38

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