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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: Sionyn on March 25, 2011, 12:22:53 am

Title: Steve Furber the creator of acorn and arm interview
Post by: Sionyn on March 25, 2011, 12:22:53 am

get this you guys are going to love it

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5438/Steve-Furber-Interview-17-08-2009/ (http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5438/Steve-Furber-Interview-17-08-2009/)

Title: Re: Steve Furber the creator of acorn and arm interview
Post by: mikeselectricstuff on March 25, 2011, 02:47:55 am

Fantastic - the other vid http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5299/Steve-Furber/ (http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5299/Steve-Furber/) has some overlap of material, but also some fascinating BBC Micro snippets,

Title: Re: Steve Furber the creator of acorn and arm interview
Post by: ShiftPlusOne on March 25, 2011, 03:47:40 am

Awesome, I enjoyed that. Though the interviewer was a bit annoying with his "uhu...uhu...ABSOLUTELY!....uhu...UHU!...uhu!".

Title: Re: Steve Furber the creator of acorn and arm interview
Post by: Zad on March 25, 2011, 04:38:50 am

It is well worth watching the Acorn World interview too, where he describes how the entire operation of the initial ARM was simulated on a BBC Micro, and how all the design documents were stored on one floppy disk which he later kept in a box in his garage!

Amazing what 2 people can do with no resources and no money.

Title: Re: Steve Furber the creator of acorn and arm interview
Post by: mikeselectricstuff on March 25, 2011, 11:34:32 am

Sorry the second link should be http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5633/Steve%20Furber%20Talk%20-%20Acorn%20World%20-%2013-09-2009 (http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5633/Steve%20Furber%20Talk%20-%20Acorn%20World%20-%2013-09-2009)

Even if you have no interest in the history, there is a valuable lesson for all developers at about 22:00 in the above video...