Date   : Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:02:49 +0100
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: Couple of Tube operation queries

On 28/09/2009, Michael Firth <mfirth@...> wrote:
> Another interesting quote from this book's Tube section is "The ARM
> second processor architecture is slightly different from that of the
> other language processors as it is provided with its own peripheral
> controller chips and communicates directly with the video and audio
> outputs" - this is the only reference I've found to suggest that Acorn
> may have been thinking of productising a BBC add-on that gave an ARM
> processor plus improved graphics and sound, rather than just the ARM
> Evaluation system, which was just a standard second processor.

Sounds like whoeer wrote that was thinking more about the A500 !

http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/Computers/A500.html

Rob