But it's not always the better machine that wins in the end. The Amiga seemed light years ahead of IBM pc's at the time in terms of graphics, but all these early machines got taken over by others.
I could listen to Fred Harris all day long. One of the best presenters of this era. I wonder what modern-day clown-like presenters really think when they watch professionals like Fred?
The amount of information and the clarity and comprehensibility of its delivery here are incredible. People need to be referring to this as an example of technical communication done right.
They don’t need to. Operating systems have been simplified and optimised along with 30-40 years of computer using experience in the population at large means you can either make a computer do what you want already or you don’t even try. Nobody these days is taking classes on how to produce word documents or poring over 400 page user manuals.
As an original owner of A410 (and a BBC B), I've observed with great interest the evolution of ARM from these foundations through to modern-day mobile phone processor design licensing; all still using RISC architecture
I remember my teachers being very excited about the Archimedes, i remember seeing one but only remember using and learning on BBC micro (typing and spreadsheets). Great time.
Roger, now Sophie Wilson! Considering how globally pervasive ARM chips are ALL over the planet, in every device imaginable. Sophie deserves to be as lauded, celebrated and recognised as 'Sir' Tim Berners-Lee!!!
Agree. On this video though at 8:29 the presenter refers to Roger *as* Sophie - no wonder I'm already confused lol! Also, check the rework operator at 16:12 - maybe I really need to get on board with gender neutrality?
At 8:29, Fred asks, "Can you give an example, of an instruction you could take away SAFELY", not Sophie :). But anyway. Yeah, Sophie/Roger is certainly a key person in the UK tech scene, and yes, she really does deserve an OBE. David Braben, who coded the Zarch game, and Waving Union Jack glag in the end demos, is now an OBE. So come on Pime Minister, please reward Sophie for her wizard chip design skills!
Sophie really does need to be recognised as one of the founders of modern computing due to her work with ARM, but because she's trangender, she just doesn't get the recognition she deserves :(
I agree, Sophie is an absolute genius. It is said she designed the ARM chip in her head on the way back from the States where they had been looking for a replacement for the Motorola 6502 used in the BBC Micro.
"Wi-Fi Sheep" channel's video series on RiscOS on the Raspberry Pi is a good introduction to the Archimedes RiscOS operating system. The first video in the series is entitled "RISC OS Direct EP1 - Getting Started With RISC OS". The RiscOS Direct distribution is the best RiscOS download for the Raspberry Pi because lots of optional utilities are crammed into its 7.5 Gb SD image.
I've never seen this video, even though I was a BBC a and Arch 305 user, upgrader and journalist. Also, I worked at BBC TVC, the at Enterprises - how did I miss it ? Great stuff
I remember watching this video at school. I had just been told (I think it was the same day) I could no longer study computers because I was not a good enough 'programmer'. I remember being interested but also feeling upset because it was beyond my understanding. Happy Memories
First computer I remember was an RML-380Z in 1980, then we got a load of BBC micros. Left school in 1988, so just before the Archimedes came out. Visited my old school in 1990 and they had a room full of Archies, very impressed at the time. Now I have a MiSTer FPGA with the Archie core and can experience these awesome machines once again. they reallywere underrated at the time.
Sophie Wilson legend she's designed some great chips ARM and of course Firepath. The UK always has punched above its weight in computing from colossus to the archimedes. Sophie is definitely up there with the greats. The UK has a huge legacy and I say its time return to those days.
'Podules'- I knew that one wouldn't fly. But what do I know? I think I might be the only person in the world who still refers to the CPU as 'the mill'.
Poor Acorn they had last laugh, but both home and business PC market were on different vector lead by US market and Archimedes is a PC backwater even in the day. Im writing this on an M1 Mac however, best of class laptop of today thats made or ARMs as is my Phone.
my goodness computers being made in Welwyn Garden City? blimey. things you never think of. ah back when we made stuff. ftr i got an a440 series one soon as they were 1st out! memories :) winchester disk indeed.
@@PanPuchackiat least she did something with her life and doesn’t let her trans identity define her for her accomplishments. Without her we wouldn’t have most modern day phones. The computer science community is filled with queerness and we’re proud. The father of computer science himself was gay. So the way I see it, u can either comment hateful shit on videos u have no idea about, or just go on with ur life, appreciate their work, and not let their personal decisions affect u
Before the days of the Web and we still have the obligatory cat image on a computer screen... methinks that we are not the highest form of life on earth!
me at the beginning of this video, looking through the comments and seeing everyone talk abt the way he says "podules": what me now:hehehe...... podjuls
And the government let ARM get away buy allowing the sale to the Japanese. Who although had to agree to keep the UK base open, I doubt they will once that clause is up.
@@monetize_this8330 Yeah they paid peanuts for ARM when you look at how many cpu's are built based on their design. I have heard that other big firms like Apple and Samsung kind of did a double take and then said.. What? It was for SALE! We'd have wrote you a check for ANYTHING!!! :(
A great video. If only I'd been able to watch it when I first owned my A310. No youtube back then:-) And a310 not upgradable... hah. 4Mb ram, Arm3, Arthur, then Riscos 2 then Riscos 3, 80mb Hard drive, 16 bit sound etc. Simpler times
I remember we had exactly one of these in each computer lab. Was a paint program with an image of a pool that gradually became an orgy as students added to it over the years. No one bothered to reset it.
Real shame this entire video is at the wrong aspect ratio. Everything that displays as an ellipse here was circular when originally displayed and broadcast. Would be nice to correct it and reupload so it's not so jarringly incongruous.
Now that Apple is fully embracing the ARM microarchitecture in their custom silicon can give a chance for the ARM based CPUs/SOC to go beyond portable and low powered devices.
To replace the AA batteries you will need to remove the hard drive to get to them. Not shown how easy it is to "replace annually" with one installed above the batteries.
Were any videos like this ever made for the Amiga? This is such an awesome video, and I'm impressed with the BBC MIcro emulation discussion too.. Archimedes is really awesome!
Fred did do an introduction on the Amiga 1000 when that came out, but on Micro Live I think, I remember him playing the sampled guitar on the keyboard.
When I was programming the 86 series of processors I stuck with the 80186 instruction set because all the fancy new instructions were just time savers, and almost immediately I made my own BASIC compiler, so making assembly language programming less laborious is pointless. Simple is better!
The demo game Lander (did it have sound does any 1 know)???? because in the intro video of the BBC A3000 Lander did actually have sound if u listen carefully thanks many thanks.
Lander does not have sound, but it is actually a cut down version of one of the first commercial games released for the Archimedes, 'Zarch', by David Braben. Zarch does have (simple) sound effects. People often confuse the two, as they are visually almost identical apart from the scoreboard at the top of the screen.
I started senior school the year before this. School was far from my favourite time but I always get the nostalgia's for that time when I see things like this, and it really happens when I see those Amstrad PCW's with the green screen, had those at school
It seems that the term had been in use since the 1970s, but fell out of fashion in the 1980s, when true GUIs started to become popular. See also the entry for "WIMP (computing)" on Wikipedia.
trouble is the archimedes just wasn't as accessible and fun as the beeb...and the rm nimbus was around about the same time...so it just got lost in the ether unfortunately...
It was just too bloody expensive. And while the Archimedes certainly had a massive edge in raw CPU power, the Amigas for half the price had excellent custom graphics and sound hardware that made the performance difference less clear in many real world applications.
@@justin3594 That's one year old comment, anyway thanks to remind me to rewatch this masterpiece once again, as software engineer I felt miniature in front of these giants.
A trans woman was instrumental in developing the CPU architecture that powers the vast majority of intelligent electronic devices on Earth today. What have you done with your life that makes you qualified to question anything that she's done?
Back in 1989 the fred Harris video the lander game had sound but today's acorns lander doesn't have sound any ideas why maybe????????? Also what's the BBC web page to contact anyone know????
hello did the lander game from 1989 have sound at all? in the video from 1987 it had sound does any one know at all thanks is there a * star command to type to get sound from lander thanks?
@@amigabang6157 And what do you know about that exactly ? Fast blitting chunks of memory is a capability built in the ARM chips. See what I am working on at the moment : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f1O75mzto0A.html You, the Amiga fanboy, don't understand what it means to have a CPU that accesses memory at least 4 times faster than a 68000.
@Zarchos Nice, I hope to see it in a game! I would think that dedicated hardware for a task would be more than 4x faster than otherwise, but I do like the Acorn computers and hope to see what they can do.
