Reproduction micros

Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> writes: I've always interpreted the "inspired by" description as being about *how* the ARM was designed, rather than about the design itself. There's a story Sophie Wilson's told in several interviews about a visit to WDC... http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/1687452/birth-world-beater | A visit Wilson and her colleague Steve Furber made to the Western | Design Centre at Phoenix, Arizona, to check out a successor to the | 6502 has passed into UK computing legend. | | The two British engineers, expecting high-tech buildings bristling | with expert brains, were astonished to find just two developers | working in a bungalow with "a bunch of college kids" on holiday | jobs. "We came away thinking if they can do it, so can we." Later in the same article: | The instruction set, Wilson said, "came from that strange place inside | my head where computer design comes from. Most engineers like to | proceed from A to B to C in a series of logical steps. I'm the rare | engineer who says the answer is obviously Z and we will get on with | that while you guys work out how to do all the intermediate steps. It | makes me a dangerous person to employ in IT but a useful one." -- Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> <http://offog.org/>