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From: bcase@Apple.COM (Brian Case)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: ARM chips
Message-ID: <9330@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 5 May 88 18:11:07 GMT
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Keywords: RISC, real-time

In article <1597@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) writes:
>Hmm, 2 people from Apple are talking about ARM.  Wonder if that means 
>anything....

If it could mean something, I wouldn't have posted about it!

>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.

ACORN makes a development system (or someone does), it is cheap compared to
other development systems.  I don't think you can get away with 200ns DRAM,
besides I don't think anyone makes DRAM that slow anymore (at least in
256K-and-up desities).  The glowing reviews are justified, but the ARM still
has deficiencies that make it less than great for fully general-purpose
systems.