Timeline for How fast did the ARM-1 access memory?
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| Oct 11, 2022 at 19:14 | comment | added | Maury Markowitz | @Tommy - there's an interview with Wilson that talks about this. They were looking at high-end designs like the 68k and 32k and found 4 Mbps memory throughput @8 MHz, the same as a 6502 at 4 MHz (which were common by that point). They saw no point in using either, and made sure their own design was much more efficient with memory accesses. | |
| Mar 30, 2020 at 11:25 | comment | added | Richard Broadhurst | Yep, the first computer to use an ARM processor was the BBC Micro running the ARM-1 based ARM Evaluation System as a co-processor. I think it could be purchased stand-a-lone, but I don't know what you could connect it to other than a BBC Micro. | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 14:05 | comment | added | David Thomas | The Archimedes range initially used ARM2. | |
| Feb 21, 2020 at 21:21 | answer | added | Grabul | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 21, 2020 at 21:11 | vote | accept | rwallace | ||
| Feb 21, 2020 at 17:40 | comment | added | fuz | The Ultimate Acorn Archimedes Talk scheds some light on this. | |
| Feb 21, 2020 at 17:38 | answer | added | Raffzahn | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 21, 2020 at 16:45 | comment | added | Tommy | It's also usually retold that Acorn's primary evaluation criteria for new chips was optimal use of memory bandwidth, and that the ARM was designed to excel at that measure. Which makes the question more interesting. | |
| Feb 21, 2020 at 15:54 | history | asked | rwallace | CC BY-SA 4.0 |