hi Marc and list UK had its BBC Micro, while at the same time in continental Europe, Commodore introduced the famous VIC20, the *Volkscomputer* with about the same specs apart from its slower microprocessor, both equiped with the famous 6502
the acronym i.e. ARM is somewhat misleading as it suggest an A(dvanced) R(educed instruction set) M(icroprocessor) which was certaintly not the case with the 6502, which had a huge set of ASM 6502 machine instructions as was the first commercially succesfull Apple IIe I wonder how first generation programmers (like I did with the VIC 20) used the Acorn in The UK to create, well pieces of the practice formerly called art? I remember there was and there still is a lively demoscene using asm 6502 or derivates as language of choice Would be nice to somehow showcase these early examples at -for instance- Furtherfield? And to juxtapoint contentinental versus UK approaches and trying to point to a certain distinction between the two, as for instance: subject matter, technical point of view, art historical context, the role of BBC compared to educational programs from ZDF, NOS nl (which happened to broadcast 6502 code hidden in television transmission signal in the 1980ties), the role of influential technical publishers like Data Becker, Germany and finally the impact of the commercial take-over around 1989 by AOL et al US which gave rise to the mainstream popularity of Home Computers (PC's) Just wondering Best Andreas Sent from my eXtended BodY On 2 dec. 2011, at 11:55, marc garrett <marc.garr...@furtherfield.org> wrote: > The BBC Microcomputer and me, 30 years down the line. > > "The BBC has an article on the BBC Microcomputer, designed and > manufactured by Acorn Computers for the BBC's Computer Literacy project. > It is now 30 years since the first BBC Micro came out — a machine with a > 2 MHz 6502 — remarkably fast for its day; the Commodore machines at the > time only ran at 1MHz. While most U.S. readers will never have heard of > the BBC Micro, the BBC's Computer Literacy project has had a huge impact > worldwide since the ARM (originally meaning 'Acorn Risc Machine') was > designed for the follow-on version of the BBC Micro, the Archimedes, > also sold under the BBC Microcomputer label by Acorn. The original ARM > CPU was specified in just over 800 lines of BBC BASIC. The ARM CPU now > outsells all other CPU architectures put together. The BBC Micro has > arguably been the most influential 8 bit computer the world had thanks > to its success creating the seed for the ARM, even if the 'Beeb' was not > well known outside of the UK." > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15969065 > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
