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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Mark</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>it does my heart good to read about the ARM
processor and its resurgence. My second computer was an Acorn Achimedes
featuring a full 32-bit RISC processor newly developed by Acorn, the ARM 2,
running a fully functional 32-bit operating system with a complete GUI (and
three button mouse!). Intel's main processor at the time was the 386 and you may
remember in the Microsoft world it was running DOS trying hard to be GUI via
Windows 3.1.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Acorn were fantastic at hardware and OS development
but crap at marketing, and so they went the way of so many other would be PC
rivals - down the gurgler. Apparently they managed to spin off their processor
chip as a separate company before the final glug and it ended up in phones (as
much as anything it was the RISC architecture that made it so undemanding on
power. While Intel were busy putting fans on the actual chip itself, the
Archimedes ran without even a cabinent fan - no noise!)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Robert T-A</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au
href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au">Mark KELLY</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=itapps@edulists.com.au
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 02, 2011 8:14
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Year 12 IT Apps] Scaling up
data centres for cloud computing andsocial networking.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>ARM chips are the go, apparently...<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/11/low-energy-servers/">http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/11/low-energy-servers/</A><BR
clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Mark Kelly<BR>Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning
Area<BR>McKinnon Secondary College<BR>McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria,
Australia<BR>Direct line / Voicemail: +613 8520 9085, Fax +613 9578 9253<BR><A
href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au"
target=_blank>kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</A><BR>VCE IT Lecture Notes: <A
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Edulist</A><BR><BR><FONT size=+0>Want a good time? Call 0112358. Ask for Mr
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