Feedback: Acorn Archimedes 310

The Acorn Archimedes is a very interesting computer... But... "It was the first RISC CPU based computer in the world" ... No, not all ... not even close. IBM, MIPS, HP all had RISC-based systems shipping before then (1987). Additionally, some much earlier systems were arguably RISC. Besides *working* on PA-RISC systems at HP around 84/85, I was at Madrid in 1984 when they had a working 9000/840 (PA-RISC) on display, using their soon-to-be-forgotten "real time" HP-UX. HP-UX wasn't forgotten, just the fact they once had a real-time option 🙂 Perhaps it was the first RISC-based personal computer?

 

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