The ARM (Acorn RISC - Reduced Instruction Set Computer - Machine) is designed by ARM Ltd (Advanced RISC Machines), a former subsidiary of the late Acorn company, and built by VLSI Technology or sometimes Gec Plessey, Sharp or TI.
Acorn was an English company which built in the early 1980s a microphone called BBC, of ??8-bit architecture, very widespread in the island. Since 1983, it has embarked on the implantation of a microprocessor RISC (based on the Berkeley model) on silicon. At the time, fashion was the 8/16 bit Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) processor and Intel was selling its 8086. The goal of Acorn was to design a powerful, low-power processor. ARM was born of the success of this company, in November 1990.
Acorn computers have been widely used in Commonwealth countries as well as in Germany and are mostly used in education. The French market unfortunately did not obey the enthusiasm that had aroused the appearance of the first computer RISC Acorn, the Archimedes, following the mass market of the time and remaining apathetic as usual.
My goal in this page is to introduce you to the wonderful possibilities that arise from the research of Acorn (then ARM) in the field of processors. A lot of the Acorn shares were held by the multinational Olivetti, but that does not matter. Acorn was one of the last companies to offer a platform with a non-MS-DOS-compatible OS that survived the IBM PC surge. Being a former Atarist and always amateur of these superb machines, I want to defend here my new loves of sillicium.
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