What is an ARM Processsor?
In a debate about whether an O/S will run on a platform (processor) or not - you would think that it would be important to know what ARM actually is!
ARM - Advanced RISC Machines, Ltd
An ARM processor is any of several 32-bit RISC (reduced instruction set computer) microprocessors
Such as the ARM CortexTM-A8 processor - www. arm.com/ products /CPUs/ARM_Cortex-A8.html (The new Apple iPad is to use the A9 ARM Processor)
Why when a component is an acronym of a company that developed it - the company is "coy" about mentioning the fact.
The ARM processor was the key component in the development of the BBC Acorn Computer (Cambridge UK) - it (the Acron computer) was in direct competition with the Sinclair range of "Home Computers" - It pre-dates the Amstrad and "Sir Alan's" venture into this market-place.
The first Integrated circuit was designed and manufactured by the Fairchild Semiconductor company (Robert Noyce) - later to become Intel. The first Microprossesor, the Intel 4004 (atributed to Federico Faggin) was released Nov 1917
Re: XP running on ARM
PDAs have ARM processors (Palm T5????) "Intel 312 MHz ARM-based processor"
Links
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- ARM: Heretic in the church of Intel, Moore's Law - ComputerWorld Article
- Palm Tungsten T5
- ARM CortexTM-A8 processor
- arm.com
- MicroMen BBC Nov 2009 - docu-drama about Clive Sinclair (Alexander Armstrong) and Chris Curry (Martin Freeman) (of The office and HHGTTG)
- The Podfather - A Docu-drama about one Intel's founders and the inventor of the first Silicon Interated Circuit (Nov 2009 - BBC) - moving directly from GaAs transistors pioneered by Schotky to a Si based technology (where are still today)
