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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by colanderman on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:01PM (#27240517)
My understanding was that much of the design of ARM was literally based on 6502: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Design_concep...

Edit: Granted, Sophie Wilson, one of the designers of ARM, is on record stating that 6502 didn't inspire anything in particular, beside being one of the few inputs to her pool of ideas (16032 and Berkeley RISC being the others): https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/admired_designs.html#wil... So... arguably :)

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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by a1369209993 on Friday May 21, 2021 @07:51PM (#27241458)
> My understanding was that much of the design of ARM was literally based on 6502

Huh, hadn't seen that previously. I'd still call that a influence on ARM rather than a proto-ARM, but fair enough.

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