Acorn's Advanced Risc Machine survives as the last reminder of an era when processor technology flourished in the UK. Mike Magee and Colin Barker remember the Transputer ? and other unsung technologies
The UK has a patchy record in the world of microprocessors. Ours is a story of occasionally brilliant innovations but also one of mismanagement, poor funding and stifling state bureaucracy. The n...
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