Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Interview with Charles

[Andy Armstrong <andy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28 Nov 2005, at 15:10, Charles Moir wrote:
> Not 100% accurate interview, it has to be said, but broadly speaking
> it's correct. The 4 chip machine was early prototype of the Acorn
> Archimedes, not BBC Micro. All 4 chips were designed by Acorn (the  
> first
> ARM processor, VIDC, IOC, MEMC) and that was just about it apart from
> ROM and RAM. I've even built myself a wire-wrap prototype using these
> chips, that I have around somewhere still - it was that easy. In  
> its day
> it was revolutionary in every way, and the production costs of that
> machine were a small fraction of the equivalent Atari ST and Amiga of
> the same era.

I've been thinking that somebody really should write the Acorn story.  
They were amazing machines in so many ways. The BBC Micro MOS was an  
amazing bit of code.

> I have a document dated 1987 that very briefly describes the plan for
> what was to become Artworks, which is the direct predecessor of Xara
> Xtreme today. So this software goes back a long, long way.

Is anyone archiving this stuff? Do we need an equivalent of  
archive.org for Acorn stories?

(I know this is off topic for the list - but it about the lineage of  
Xara Xtreme in many ways)

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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net