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I saw that video. He only came in long after the Archimedes era and he doesn't seem to know anything about it. No Archimedes, no ARM. You have to know your history; ask George Santayana.

I would mention that that video was _wildly_ contentious over in the RISC OS world. :-D

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I can see why the video would have been contentious - the general impression given was that the IP that ARM (the company) inherited wasn't that great, which does't seem entirely fair.

Also RISC OS was a desktop OS and Thumb etc was all about getting into mobile devices and so in effect abandoning that legacy.

In fairness though without Thumb ARM would be unlikely to have reached its market position today so credit due I think to all those who contributed to the evolution of the architecture (including the team that developed A64).