ARM. The chip we didn't know we needed

There are architectures you see and architectures you don't. ARM is the most extreme case of the second category: it runs in the phone in our pocket, in the home router, in the eighty-euro board that serves as a home server for millions of tinkerers, in the datacentres of Amazon and Google. It is everywhere, and almost nobody knows what it is. It took me years too to bring it into focus, and the occasion was a Raspberry Pi 3 that I had decided to turn into a Nextcloud — the first brick of what would become, in the years to come, my small homelab — many years ago. It was a line in /boot/config that made me notice the thing: the Pi's processor, a Broadcom BCM2837, used the same architecture as the Android phones I had hacked for years. ARM. Same instruction set, same underlying logic, same family.

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https://write.as/jolek78/arm-the-chip-we-didnt-know-we-needed

One must be such a nitwit for using any ARM-based processors while being a transphobe.
Same, if you're having interest in cipher or mathematical models of computation while being an homophobe.
You'd be nowhere without Sophie Wilson or Alan Turing.

#ignorance #ComputingHistory #ARM #ARMarchitecture #processors #computing #transsexual #engineer #scientist #SophieWilson #AlanTuring

Ainda faltam 21 minutos para terminar o Dia da Visibilidade Trans

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/01/29/ainda-faltam-21-minutos-para-terminar-o-dia-da-visibilidade-trans/

#MundoRetro #Anos80 #arm #ARM1 #lgbtq #microprocessador #SophieWilson

Btw #SophieWilson was once a guest speaker at the #AltParty.

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