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		lttlrck on Sept 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intel’s Ponte Vecchio: Chiplets Gone Crazy A 233Mhz StrongARM coprocessor plugged into an Acorn RISC PC around 1994 was astonishing to behold. 233Mhz! RiscOS flew! That could have been the future.

sgerenser on Sept 26, 2023 [–]

Are you sure about the timeline? I don’t think the StrongARM CPUs were running that fast in 1994.

phonon on Sept 26, 2023 | [–]

Yeah, 1996.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM#SA-110

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