[Info-vax] [OT] ARM architecture, was: Re: Current VMS Usage Survey

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-12-06, Bill Gunshannon <bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu> wrote:
> In article <l7rgqg$aen$1 at solani.org>,
> 	Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
>> Bill Gunshannon schrieb:
>> 
>>> Intel had others that have had even more success than Itanium.  Like
>>> Arm.  :-)
>> 
>> They never "had" ARM.
>
> OK, my mistake.  I thought I had seen that they were producing ARM CPS's.
>
>> Iirc they inherited StrongARM in that 1997 DEC deal,
>> and that was canned and developers wouldn't work for
>> intel, see the Alasir pages,
>> http://alasir.com/articles/alpha_history/dec_collapse.shtml
>
> Isn't StronARM just a different variant of ARM?  Like Sparc and ULTRASparc.
>

The British company which created the ARM architecture has created multiple
versions of that architecture to address specific markets and new
requirements as they emerge.

StrongARM was just one implementation of a specific ARM architecture version.

BTW, if you have not experienced ARM before now, you should have a closer
look at it. It's a clean architecture with a beautifully expressive
assembly language.

Simon.

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