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> They essentially gave the market to ARM

They also had the best ARM chips for years with StrongARM/Xscale (using their own cores). Which they killed because obviously Atom was going to be much better and lock in everyone into x86...



A 233Mhz StrongARM coprocessor plugged into an Acorn RISC PC around 1994 was astonishing to behold. 233Mhz! RiscOS flew! That could have been the future.


Are you sure about the timeline? I don’t think the StrongARM CPUs were running that fast in 1994.





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