Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[toddpw@ugcs.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)]

CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney) writes:

>Well, I've been very curious about this ARM processor since Supertimer
>first mentioned it.  I did a web search on Friday and found a page
>about the ARM processor and took a look at the specs and some sample
>source code.

Try the official site:
http://www.arm.com

>There was no mention of it being 65xxx compatible and the sample
>source code looks like it is an 80xxx compatible instruction set.
>There was even mention of the ARM based computers being compatible and
>upgradable to use Pentium processors.

ARM is its own instruction set. It has way more in common with the chips
you'd find in unix workstations than it does with the byte-opcode machines.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ ugcs.caltech.edu