Re: MISC-d Digest V00 #17

["Wayne Morellini" <waynemm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Graeme Dunbar" <G.R.A.Dunbar@eee.rgu.ac.uk>

>This makes good sense Don. It is not quite the same thing, but I was
>surprised to find that the ARM (Acorn RISC machine) is embedded in so
>many custom chips. The Acorn Archimedes was never a great commercial
>success - it was ahead of its time and suffered from being the >product of 
>a
>small company with the usual British level of financial backing. It >is 
>good to
>see the design get the (belated) recognition it deserves.

Actually to the origional poster (Allan Grimes I think).  If you go to the 
www.arm.com (the manufacturer) web site you will find that they have free 
designs for whole systems based on their chips.  They have cobined 1.5bips 
processor, 64 Bit ARM processors (are supposed to be comming), and higher 
speed lower powered versions of the 32-bit line.  OS's Elate (The Toas one), 
Linux, Java (I think) & Epoch 32 (Psion), and of course Arm RISC-OS (Galileo 
version died I think but would be up there with Toas).  I like them over 
Mips myself.

Wayne.


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