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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://fsebugoutzone.org/objects/8e477263-0809-4348-aa4f-877d3fde0868">pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 07:58:48 JST</a><a href="https://fsebugoutzone.org/users/p" title="p@fsebugoutzone.org"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/theme/gnusocialjp/default-avatar-stream.png" width="48" height="48" alt="pistolero" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">pistolero</a><div><a href="https://fluffytail.org/objects/7304d477-4507-43cf-bb8b-ef4731fe279b" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li><li><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/user/8705" title="raphiel_shiraha_ainsworth@poa.st">raphiel_shiraha_ainsworth</a></li><li><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/user/8959" title="redtechengineer@fedi.lowpassfilter.link">RedTechEngineer</a></li><li><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/user/158739" title="phnt@fluffytail.org">Phantasm</a></li><li><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/user/284087" title="nyanide@lab.nyanide.com">nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:</a></li></ul></div></section><article><a href="https://fluffytail.org/users/phnt">@phnt</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/@bonifartius">@bonifartius</a> <a href="https://fedi.lowpassfilter.link/users/RedTechEngineer">@RedTechEngineer</a> <a href="https://lab.nyanide.com/users/nyanide">@nyanide</a> <a href="https://poa.st/users/raphiel_shiraha_ainsworth">@raphiel_shiraha_ainsworth</a> <br><br>&gt; Using ARM boards as desktops or servers is a relatively new concept<br><br>That was the original use of the Acorn RISC Machine ("ARM") CPU:  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers</a> .  I had a couple of Genesi Efika MXs.  (I have been a fan of ARM since the GBA.)<br><br>&gt; With RISC-V it's the same story, but with even less traction and demand in the market.<br><br>Yeah.  They're pretty fuckin' cool, though.</article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4788353#notice-9400384">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-03-27T07:58:48+09:00" title="Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 07:58:48 JST">about 16 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://fsebugoutzone.org/objects/8e477263-0809-4348-aa4f-877d3fde0868" rel="external" title="Sent from fsebugoutzone.org via ActivityPub">fsebugoutzone.org</a></span></span><a href="https://fsebugoutzone.org/objects/8e477263-0809-4348-aa4f-877d3fde0868">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers">Acorn Computers</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England in 1978 by Hermann Hauser, Chris Curry and Andy Hopper. The company produced a number of computers during the 1980s with associated software that were highly popular in the domestic market, and they have been historically influential in the development of computer technology like processors.
The company's Acorn Electron, released in 1983, and the later Acorn Archimedes, were highly popular in Britain, while Acorn's BBC Micro computer dominated the educational computer market during the 1980s. The company also designed the ARM architecture and the RISC OS operating system for it. The architecture part of the business was spun-off as Advanced RISC Machines under a joint venture with Apple and VLSI in 1990, now known as Arm Holdings, which is dominant in the mobile phone and personal digital assistant (PDA) microprocessor market today.
Acorn in the 1990s released the Risc PC line and the Acorn Network Computer, and also had a stint in the set-top box and educational markets. However, financial troubles led to the company...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 07:58:48 JSTpistolero
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> Using ARM boards as desktops or servers is a relatively new concept

That was the original use of the Acorn RISC Machine ("ARM") CPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers . I had a couple of Genesi Efika MXs. (I have been a fan of ARM since the GBA.)

> With RISC-V it's the same story, but with even less traction and demand in the market.

Yeah. They're pretty fuckin' cool, though.
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  Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England in 1978 by Hermann Hauser, Chris Curry and Andy Hopper. The company produced a number of computers during the 1980s with associated software that were highly popular in the domestic market, and they have been historically influential in the development of computer technology like processors. The company's Acorn Electron, released in 1983, and the later Acorn Archimedes, were highly popular in Britain, while Acorn's BBC Micro computer dominated the educational computer market during the 1980s. The company also designed the ARM architecture and the RISC OS operating system for it. The architecture part of the business was spun-off as Advanced RISC Machines under a joint venture with Apple and VLSI in 1990, now known as Arm Holdings, which is dominant in the mobile phone and personal digital assistant (PDA) microprocessor market today. Acorn in the 1990s released the Risc PC line and the Acorn Network Computer, and also had a stint in the set-top box and educational markets. However, financial troubles led to the company...

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