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8A51C | 1 year ago

The first commercially available Acorn RISC processor was released as a co-processor for the BBC Micro. Acorn always had processors on the mind it seems as the Tube interface and protocol [1] is solely for co-processors.

There's an excellent Rasperry Pi based project, PiTubeDirect, which emulates the ARM and many other co-processors on original Acorn 6502 based hardware; Atom, Electron, Micro and Master [2]. The original expansion hardware is, as expected, incredibly rare and valuable.

[1] https://mdfs.net/Info/Comp/Acorn/AppNotes/004.pdf [2] https://github.com/hoglet67/PiTubeDirect

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