There's also rumours that thumb was designed for Nintendo first, because most processors at the time were not fixed-width instruction, and Arm was fixed-width 32-bit, Arm instructions consumed 50% more storage than other instruction sets; not ideal for those expensive ROM chips with game cartridges on a home console like the SNES ... The SNES also has an 8-bit cartridge bus, so 32-bit instructions across that would have been horribly slow. EDIT: See the video "A History of The ARM Microprocessor | Dave Jaggar" at time code 28:40

woah cool an MC dev

Correct. I had to simplify massively to fit it into a narrative

Either way nobody can really pinpoint the exact trait that determines the bitness of the CPU. The 68008 is probably the best example of ambiguous bitness. There's also the Z80 with its 4-bit ALU, 8-bit data and 16-bit registers. So yeah, thumb mode... 16-bit... sure... I'll accept it.

When TI launched a 16 bit CPU on an 8 bit bus with the TI 99/4A they hamstrung their own design

so fun to hear you in this one, Rohin!

my favorite cardiologist ❤️

Well put! Couldn't agree more 🤗

for those who want to know, it's Jotaro from the 3rd episode of Stone Ocean's anime adaptation, but dressed as freaking Mario holding a cpu it's amazing

Yare yare daze

Imagine using a CPU as a Stand.

For real. I sat there studying the picture for nearly a full minute before I even played the video. "... Is that? Ha! Glorious!" Total aces on that one.

@@gonzalomartinez01 and the cpu is an arm cpu and he is holding the arm cpu with his arm

On average these videos are getting more views than the old content

Don't forget that he is also on Nebula now.

UKposts twisted form of "engagement". That's why I'm liking those videos and posting a comment. Just to make sure that like like minded individuals are given the "chance" to see that video. That being said, the most wild CPU I've used was the DEC Alpha. Running a mere 33MHz, that thing was more powerful than the Pentium 90. I was designing 3D scene on the Pentium, but running my rendering software on the Alpha because it was years before its peers. Good ol' times...

@@LowSpecGamer still we need the original LowSpecGamer now more than ever, with The Last of Us, Hogwarts Legacy and RE4 Remake.

I no longer know how to modify games like that and I am so burned out of the concept that I don't even own a PC anymore.

Pressure to do this is coming from softbank btw.

You either die a hero…

great. let the Risc-V arms race begin then

People were wondering how RISC-V could make inroads against the ARM juggernaut. Now we know: ARM itself will give it a helping hand...

​@@LowSpecGamer Or live long enough to see yourself not become a company.

can risc-v cooperate with common gpus?

@@namehere5364 you can actually! at least with AMD since the drivers are open source and integrated into the linux kernel meaning they compile to risc. It's still early days, but many of the basic issues are not present, despite that it's still usable. Nvidia will probably lag very far behind as their support for anything novel always lags behind. (especially their atrocious drivers)

@@haloshiroe *anything novel that isnt theirs

@@namehere5364 Yes. You can add PCIe as well. Also, most code today is written on higher languages since compilers have gotten way better in creating optimized code for diverse architectures. It will take a while until they can deal with RISC-V just as well but the day will come and then most software can easily be recompiled for RISC-V architectures. The only thing that makes me worry a bit is that RISC-V could fragment like crazy because it's open.

@@haloshiroe NVidia is working on making their drivers open source.

That sounds interesting. Do you have a source on that?

@@MaddTheSaneyes I would be intrigued too.

Googling did not bring up any Apple II information. So hoping there is information on this computer somewhere.

Oh… ok!

@@LowSpecGamer resist the urge

Fascinating stuff that reveals some of the giants on whose shoulders we stand on.

@@joesheepy Exactly, this series made me realise how great deal of a thing processors are.

Olivetti does exist

You know until I started working at a bank here I’d never heard of Olivetti (and one I did I cursed their names for years) but afterwards I found little hints of the companies influence all through the tech world.

@@BavarianM yes... but no. During the history, Olivetti brand took different paths, and now the former Olivetti SPA is... TIM Spa, one of biggest ISP and phone provider in Italy. Story is really... twisted and tangled, but might be worth of some time reading. Because before becoming owner (than the company itself) Olivetti was 50% shareholder of a company who detaine the two firsts (in time sequence) competitor of TIM (at the time, Telecom Italia): Omnitel (now owned by Vodafone) and Infostrada (now part of WindTre, owned by HutchinsonWampoa). You can still buy "olivetti" branded device, mostly MFP and printers, but normally are badge-engineered products of other manifacturers.

Reject monolinguism Diventa poliglotta

oh i did end up getting nebula btw

Tengo versiones en español por si acaso

Thank you!

Want something even more wild? All the digital information that existed in 1990 could fit on an SD card.

Oh yeah, they banked hard on the embedded strategy. GBA just happened to be the mainstream device that helped them capture attention needed to IPO according to the interview I used as a source

It’s a little trick we stole from Extra History to keep track of characters but it never stops being funny

As Mr. Lauda taught me... Austrian keeps pride of their nationality and don't want to be confused with... "neighbors".

A certain person was born in a border town, and to this day each insists he was born on the other side.

Considering that ARM has been in PC chips from the beginning ... did you mean a _Microsoft_ -compatible PC?

Apples ARM architecture outstrips performance of the x86 counterparts in pretty much all scenarios, it even emulates and runs x86 binaries faster than running them natively in most cases, I was blown away by the performance of the M1 and M2 when I switched to them.

@@Underestimated37 But these Apple machines are not upgradeable. How will they use the same architecture to create a Mac Pro successor? That market will not tolerate running on glorified laptops.

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 not upgradable? The entire product line hasn’t been upgradable for ages, but you’re really not getting it, these chips out of the box perform better than an i9 processor, they have a variant that is triple the power of the base chip and runs a pro variant of the Mac mini. They’ve already done what you’re claiming that they can’t do. As for graphics cards and things like that, there’s been people online adapting pre-existing graphics cards to run with ARM already, some on apples architecture, it’s only the manufacturers themselves not coming to the table preventing them from being available already. They are not glorified laptop chips, they are fully functional processors running better than the equivalent chip on x86 architecture. There’s a whole community of users already using them for heavy lifting jobs like video rendering, photoshop, 3D graphics, CAD and Software Development, and they perform better than same generation PC machines running the exact same software in most cases, often with the high end PC chips performing worse than the base model M1 chip.

@@Underestimated37 Still, there is no ARM-based Mac Pro equivalent as yet.

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 that’s generally because apple has a habit of updating that product very slowly, the Mac Studio as it stands right now far outperforms the Mac Pro on pretty much everything except graphics card performance. There’s an ARM based Mac Pro planned but not announced yet too, they hinted that when they released the Mac Studio.

x86 has been used in smartphones in the past , there were times where it matched ARM. ARM eventually left it in the dust when it came to mobile, however x86 has never been as energy efficient and cool as it is now. Hence the handheld gaming PCs that have been popping up, it’s about time we try an x86 phone again. It may not be ARM's equal in that role, but I don't think many would care if they could play PC games and applications.

Huh. Do you have any specific examples? I might experiment with that

@@LowSpecGamer Sure. Here's a series of music videos that uses the technique I was thinking of: ukposts.info/slow/PLMt7nhuKYU6o_8vkuH8LPdkt_QN7CwnJn I feel like this one is the closest to the same budget as your channel's animation appears to have. This one also uses it: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/g4KEroF6famFt3U.html And this one also mixes 2D and 3D animation, but in a very different way: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/sYScgn2ooYCUlHk.html

You just gave me an idea. We will see!

I’d argue that the raspberry pi is the catalyst that drove ARM back into the forefront of the technical communities minds, prior to that a lot of embedded computing still relied on dodgy spin-offs of the x86 architectures, once the Pi came along there grew a massive new market for small scale computing that has changed the way modern technology has evolved

@@Underestimated37 And now we can even revive vintage computers with the Raspberry Pi and other such single board computers turning them into powerhouses. such as the Commodore 64 with an Orange Pi, with modern hardware and software (and a bit of DIY) it could run modern games. and would turn some heads at the same time.

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