Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu!ralphw
From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: ARM chips
Message-ID: <1597@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 4 May 88 15:43:44 GMT
References: <1521@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1532@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <476@pcrat.UUCP> <9302@apple.Apple.Com>
Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
Lines: 25
Keywords: RISC, real-time

In article <9302@apple.Apple.Com> bcase@apple.UUCP (Brian Case) writes:
>In article <476@pcrat.UUCP> rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
>>I'm still looking for the RISC that does ~4K (C language) Dhrystones,
>>has no cache, clocks around 4 Mhz, has a 16 bit bus, can address maybe 1MB,
>>is a power miser, can't do floating point, and costs no more than $15.
>
>Oh, that's easy!  The Acorn RISC Machine (ARM).  Yes, I know it has a
>32-bit bus now, but just talk to VTI (they have the ARM and use it as a
>cell, I think):  
Hmm, 2 people from Apple are talking about ARM.  Wonder if that means 
anything....

OK, where would I get a similarly cheap machine to do ARM development
on?  (It should cost less than a Sun-3/60, maybe about what a Mac II costs,
and maybe somewhere in between what a '386 clone and IBM PS2/80 costs.)
It would be nice to get away with 200-250ns DRAMS, for example.
Judging from the glowing reviews in Byte, you'd think that somebody would be
hot to import some of these nifty U.K developments.  But then, whatever 
happened to the Torch XXX PC, which looked like an serious Amiga 2000/Mac II 
competitor if ever I saw (a review of) one.
-- 
					- Ralph W. Hyre, Jr.

Internet: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu    Phone:(412)268-{2847,3275} CMU-{BUGS,DARK}
Amateur Packet Radio: N3FGW@W2XO, or c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club, Pittsburgh, PA