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   On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 10:02:46 +0000   
   The Natural Philosopher  wrote:   
      
   > So design your own chip!   
      
   	Do you trust the chip layout software not to embed a backdoor or   
   something ? What do you run that chip layout software on and why do you   
   trust that system. You'd best start from MSI TTL/CMOS logic and build your   
   own system to run the chip design software (that you write or at least   
   audit) to design the chips.   
      
   > The ARM is a special CPU that was designed initially to beat the 6502   
   > and walk all over z80s and 8080s.   
      
   	I know - I was in Cambridge and in the business when it was being   
   done. I knew about the ARM before it was released, they were pretty good at   
   keeping it out of the rumour mill but nothing is completely secret in   
   Cambridge. Earliest rumours had Andy Hopper involved.   
      
   	The modern ARMv8 architecture bears little resemblance to the   
   original ARM used in the Archimedes, it has become massively complex. Even   
   so for the time the performance of the original ARM was stunning, matched   
   only by the Transputer which was weird and expensive. Once thought to be   
   the future of computing the Transputer is all but forgotten, while ARMv8 has   
   become the dominant 64 bit architecture (measured in numbers of CPUs   
   manufactured).   
      
   --   
   Steve O'Hara-Smith   
   Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/   
   For forms of government let fools contest   
   Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope   
      
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