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To: Harvey Rosenkrantz who wrote (17823)	11/5/1998 10:20:00 AM
From: J.B.C.	Respond to of 152472

Can't fool me...ARM is adjustable rate mortgage <g> Jim

To: Harvey Rosenkrantz who wrote (17823)	11/5/1998 1:24:00 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

<<<Please forgive a nontechie. I know that 80186 is the IBM 186 processor, but what is ARM?>> The 186 is not only IBM, but QCOM licensed the core from intel back in 1994. The ones they use today are the real actual 80186 core from intel ported over to the QCOM process rules. ARM is a new processor (can't remember the acronym right now..) but it is a scalable RISC type processor that is showing up in many new products. It can go from a 16 bit processor (ARM Thumb) to a full up 100 MIPS 32 bit processor (ARM 7 like the DEC offering). It was built to be low power and very high speed. It is all written in VHDL, so you can build it in your process with not too much trouble. Note that Intel bought DEC...and they got the ARM in the process.