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Re:Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster by garblegarble on Sunday August 16, 2020 @08:04AM (#24177109)
>I would have thought that Apple's ARM architecture license would include terms to preclude incompatible forks.

For an ordinary licensee you might think so, but Apple may well have special terms, given that they co-founded ARM

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Re:Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster by znpy on Sunday August 16, 2020 @09:21AM (#24177541)
> given that they co-founded ARM

?????

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Re:Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster by throw0101a on Sunday August 16, 2020 @09:30AM (#24177612)
> The company was founded in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd and structured as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and VLSI Technology.[17][18][19] The new company intended to further the development of the Acorn RISC Machine processor, which was originally used in the Acorn Archimedes and had been selected by Apple for its Newton project. […] The company was first listed on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ in 1998[23] and by February 1999, Apple's shareholding had fallen to 14.8%.[24]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Holdings#Founding

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Re:Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster by craftinator on Sunday August 16, 2020 @10:47AM (#24178233)
Holy moly, how did I never know this? I've worked on ARM based systems for years and never run across this tidbit. Thanks for sharing!
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Re:Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster by leejoramo on Sunday August 16, 2020 @09:32AM (#24177624)
From the LA Times in 1990

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-28-fi-4993-s...

Apple went on to use ARM in the Newton and other devices....

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