Re: Sophie Wilson post about early ARM history from 1988
That brings back memories. I remember someone posting it on the polytechnic's message board system (whatever it was called - the poly had a VAX8600 IIRC as well as a whole bunch of smaller ones). Must have been shortly after it was posted to usenet judging by that date - I didn't have usenet in those days.
I remember being terribly impressed by the poster - surely he must have had personal contact with Roger! Turns out not, but Jan Paxton had actually had a part in writing some commercial terminal software for the Archimedes, which I later went on to buy when I got my modem and was able to remote-in to the poly's computer in order to work on assignments from home, on mum & dad's phone bill :-)
It was Jan who introduced me to the Archimedes demo scene. I spent hours watching those things!
I also remember the time - not long afterwards - when I got *very* confused when someone insisted on referring to Sophie Wilson and assumed I knew who she was.
I still think the sale to Softbank was wrong...
M.
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