Date   : Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:20:57 +0100
From   : julesrichardsonuk@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: : ARM7 Evaluation System & BBC/ Master

Pete Turnbull wrote:
> On 24/09/2007 12:27, Jon Welch wrote:
>>> From: "Peter Craven" <cjl_craves@...>
> 
>>> Does anybody have a copy of the ARM Evaluation Software and Documentation?
>>> I could only find the 1986 ARM system User Guide.
> 
> I've got several of the manuals, and I'm sure Jules Richardsaon borrowed 
> them once, but whether he scanned them I don't know.  I'd have to do 
> uite a bit of digging to get at them, though.

You know, I did find an email the other week about that - I know we were 
talking about my borrowing them at one point (and I think this was the latter 
half of the 90s, so a while ago :-) but I don't think it ever quite happened 
(ISTR having no car at the time, so doing anything involving any distance was 
a pain)

[I've also found that four years ago Kevan should have had a set of copied AEK 
disks for me ferried from you... I'll have to give him a prod and see if he 
still has them ;) ]

>> You can find disc images of the Arm Evaluation Software at the following
link :
>>
>> http://www.g7jjf.com/acornArm.htm
> 
> When this first came up 4 years ago

Indeed... end of 2003...

You know, I'm reasonably sure that Acorn had a C compiler for the AEK, at 
least internally; I swear I've stumbled across some info on it before (or at 
the very least it was being thought about). I suppose there's a chance I'm 
getting muddled with the Springboard, though.

C++ compiler though, I doubt it (although there was a C++ compiler for the 
RISC PC machines, wasn't there?). Peter said 'ARM7', whilst Jon brought up the 
AEK - does 'ARM7' mean Sprow's modern-day ARM copro rather than Acorn's own 
offering? (And are we merging two different topics into one here? :-)

cheers

Jules