Date   : Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:45:13 -0000
From   : Gordon Jefferyes <Gordon.Jefferyes@...>
Subject: Re: second processor pictures

The Arm Evaluation Kit, was a second processor upgrade for the BBC.
(There is no emulation about it, it is all the real thing)

It enabled people to use the BBC as a front end for the Arm processor.
Acorn released this before they had developed the Archimedes.
It enabled developers to load ARM code into ARM processors memory via the
BBC
and test out the Arm processor.

The Arm processor was running all the code, and the BBC is used for its I/O
(Screen, keyboard and disc drive......)
This is much the same as any other second processor upgrade.
Just that the Arm Processor was very new when it was release this way.

This is a very good way or releasing a very new processor as really all you
have
to do to get it working is connect the Arm Processor to some memory and to
the TUBE interface on the BBC and start it up with a small boot rom,
this is much less work that building a totally
new machine and building a full new operating system for it.

GordonJ.

PS. still looking for BBC Master 512K discs. :o(

-----Original Message-----
From: F. Haroon [mailto:haroonpd@...]
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 04:28
To: Gordon Jefferyes
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] second processor pictures


Hi there, so what was the ARM Evaluation Kit used for,
to test ARM processors?  Could the BBC's emulate ARM
code through this?

Fiaz.

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