The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM architecture

Re:The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM... by m0xte on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:43AM (#23650540)

Yeah the A440 was not cheap. I didn't understand money as much as I do now back then. Equivalent inflation adjusted is about £6500 now (!). Which is why my parents had a heart attack when I just blew it instantly on that. Absolutely would not have bought it if I had some more clue. But to this day I have no regrets as it gave me an excellent foundation, understanding and career in computing.

But yes the things lasted a hell of a long time. Mine went until 1998 at which point it was replaced with a Pentium II box running Windows dual booting with Linux. Got 10 years out of that machine which is remarkable considering the progress and change in the 1990s.

I'm on a Mac mini at the moment with an iPad Pro as a secondary machine so the moment an ARM Mac comes out I'm back with an ARM desktop again. It's all a big circle. Perhaps ARX was going to be an early macOS X contender... who knows?

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Re:The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM... by lproven on Friday June 26, 2020 @10:23AM (#23652276)

I facilitated a talk at the London RISC OS user group by the lead architect of RO, Paul Fellows: http://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/2012/PaulFellows/

From what he said about ARX, I suspect not...

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Re:The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM... by m0xte on Friday June 26, 2020 @11:19AM (#23652969)

Thanks for this. Will read later.

Wasn’t ARX basically Unix reimplemented in Modula2 ?

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