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Wilson was the Chief Architect of Broadcom's Firepath processor. [26] Firepath has its history in Acorn Computers, [27] which, after being renamed to Element 14, was broken up in an acquisition, with the Element 14 name being transferred to a new company, [28] this company eventually being bought by Broadcom in 2000. [29]
The Acorn Microcomputer, later renamed the Acorn System 1, was designed by Sophie Wilson (then Roger Wilson). It was a semi-professional system aimed at engineering and laboratory users, but its price was low enough, at around £80 (equivalent to £420 in 2023), [ 16 ] to appeal to the more serious enthusiast as well.
The main parts of the system were designed by then-Cambridge-undergraduate student Sophie Wilson, [3] with a cassette interface designed by Steve Furber. [4] It was Acorn's first product, and was based on an automated cow feeder. [3] [disputed – discuss]
The second was a visit by Steve Furber and Sophie Wilson to the Western Design Center, a company run by Bill Mensch and his sister, which had become the logical successor to the MOS team and was offering new versions like the WDC 65C02. The Acorn team saw high school students producing chip layouts on Apple II machines, which suggested that ...
Sophie Wilson developed the implementations of BASIC at Acorn. [21] The dialect on the BBC Microcomputer became compatible with Microsoft BASIC and so was acceptable to the BBC. It already had features from the ALGOL 60 group of computer languages that Wilson added to enable some structured programming methodology to be used.
The machine was only at the design stage at the time, and the Acorn team, including Steve Furber and Sophie Wilson, had one week to build a working prototype from the sketched designs. [7] The team worked through the night to get a working Proton together to show the BBC. [8]
Garrett Wilson, WR, New York Jets. The Aaron Rodgers era is coming to an end, but three years of losing and subpar quarterback play seem to have taken a toll on Wilson. While scraping his way to ...
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