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by gumby 4538 days ago
I love that the author described the ARM as "elegant, pragmatic, and quirky." It reminds me of Gordon Bell's PCP-6/PDP-10 architecture, but applied to the RISC rather than CISC philosophy.

(well, the PDP-10 was pretty RISC for its day and gave us things like BLT, hence bitblit).