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FediThing πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

@anguinea @stux

Must have been early 1980s?

By the way, the computer they are using is by UK manufacturer Acorn.

When Acorn did their next computer model after that one, they designed a totally new kind of CPU for it called ARM. That's the same ARM chip series which is nowadays in pretty much everything portable including iPhones, iPads, Androids, Smartwatches, Nintendo Switch etc.

So, in a way, that computer there is the forerunner of almost all the smart devices people use now.

7 Nov 2023 at 1:35 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.chinwag.org
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mafe πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¦:golang: :nixos:

@FediThing @anguinea @stux It's not the same ARM chip series but the same ARM instruction set. Slightly difference.

7 Nov 2023 at 13:30 | Open on layer8.space
FediThing πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

@mafe @anguinea @stux

Fair enough! Still fun to think there is a lineage there though πŸ‘

7 Nov 2023 at 13:47 | Open on social.chinwag.org
fluffy πŸ’œ

@FediThing @anguinea @stux I've always been a bit amused that of all the micros in the 1980s, it's the Acorn which eventually won out, just not in the way anyone ever expected.

11 Nov 2023 at 5:43 | Open on plush.city
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@FediThing @anguinea @stux Is that the BBC Micro? I'm sure those were the ones we got at my highschool. Our maths teacher set up a little computer lab.

13 Nov 2023 at 8:52 | Open on fosstodon.org
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