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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <l7sip2$ksu$1 at dont-email.me>,
	Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> On 2013-12-06, Bill Gunshannon <bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu> wrote:
>> In article <l7rgqg$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.

I have a few RaspberryPi's.  All I need now is the time to play with them.

bill

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