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watmough on Oct 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scott Forstall leaves Apple

Hahahaha.

So you've never heard about what the ARM was originally designed for?

http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/Computers/A500.html

I guess that was a while ago! And it certainly was desktop-class. It beat the pants off a 12 MHz 286.

Geee on Oct 30, 2012 [–]

Ok, got it. :) Let me prepend my original statement by "Since the A500 and the subsequent failures, ..."

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