[SailfishDevel] How do you evaluate the recent events of jolla

[Bob Summerwill]

Thanks for the link, Chris.   I will check that out.  I love emulators.

My most exotic hardware purchase was a
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAM_Coup%C3%A9, possibly the most powerful
ever 8-bit computer.  But way too late.  16-bit and 32-bit machines already
existed and were surging in popularity.  I just couldn't afford an Atari ST
or Amiga, let alone an Archimedes or PC.

OK.   Last retro geek link to put a stop to my hijacking of the original
question in a flood of nostalgia...

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/commodore-smartphone/
On Jul 17, 2015 7:47 AM, "Chris Walker" <
cdw_nokiaqt at the-walker-household.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 07:23:37 -0400
> Bob Summerwill <bob at summerwill.net> wrote:
>
> > Well said, Chris!
> >
> > Like everybody else British of a certain age, I cut my teeth on a BBC
> > Model B.  A close friend of mine got the very expensive Archimedes (
> > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes) which was the first
> > ever ARM computer, but that was always well out of reach financially
> > for me. It is amazing how from that niche British educational market,
> > the ARM design now dominates the world, and has given the mighty
> > Intel a complete beating.
>
> I too had a BBC Micro, an Archimedes, a Risc PC and even an Iyonix for
> a short while.
>
> The big thing about Acorn is that they designed both the hardware and
> the software, much like Apple and of course, partly like Jolla. That's
> the reason I support them.
>
> Intel even built an ARM CPU for the Risc PC. It was a 200MHz device,
> called a StrongARM and superceded the ARM3 device my machine had in it,
> itself an upgrade from the 33MHz ARM3 device which in turn had been an
> upgrade from the ARM2 it originally shipped with. But Intel gave up the
> design. The ARM design has improved considerably since.
>
> Much like you've suggested the Youtube video, I would suggest RPCEmu ;-)
>
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