[Year 12 IT Apps] Scaling up data centres for cloud computing andsocial networking.

[Timmer-Arends]

Hello Mark

it does my heart good to read about the ARM processor and its resurgence. My second computer was an Acorn Achimedes featuring a full 32-bit RISC processor newly developed by Acorn, the ARM 2, running a fully functional 32-bit operating system with a complete GUI (and three button mouse!). Intel's main processor at the time was the 386 and you may remember in the Microsoft world it was running DOS trying hard to be GUI via Windows 3.1.
Acorn were fantastic at hardware and OS development but crap at marketing, and so they went the way of so many other would be PC rivals - down the gurgler. Apparently they managed to spin off their processor chip as a separate company before the final glug and it ended up in phones (as much as anything it was the RISC architecture that made it so undemanding on power. While Intel were busy putting fans on the actual chip itself, the Archimedes ran without even a cabinent fan - no noise!)

Regards
Robert T-A
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark KELLY 
  To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 8:14 AM
  Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Scaling up data centres for cloud computing andsocial networking.


  ARM chips are the go, apparently...

  http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/11/low-energy-servers/

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  Mark Kelly
  Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning Area
  McKinnon Secondary College
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