Going from a BBC Master to an Acorn Archimedes 310 at the College I was working in then was like going from an Apple ][ to a Mac.
Archimedes 310s(?) were in use for medical graphics applications (expanded RAM and I think I recall they had floating point units of some kind). There was also a parametric CAD application that was used by Lucas(?) for a bit. The music software Sibelius was released first on this platform having been coded in assembler by the brothers Finn for speed.
The subsequent financial and ownership history of the ARM processor design isn't as inspiring I'm afraid.
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Going from a BBC Master to an Acorn Archimedes 310 at the College I was working in then was like going from an Apple ][ to a Mac.
Archimedes 310s(?) were in use for medical graphics applications (expanded RAM and I think I recall they had floating point units of some kind). There was also a parametric CAD application that was used by Lucas(?) for a bit. The music software Sibelius was released first on this platform having been coded in assembler by the brothers Finn for speed.
The subsequent financial and ownership history of the ARM processor design isn't as inspiring I'm afraid.
So yes gongs for MS Wilson!