An Audience with Steve Furber - Acorn BBC Micro, ARM Processor, Spinnnaker
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Bill Thompson talks to Steve Furber about his career in computing. Starting from the early days of Acorn, through to the ARM processor and his current project - Spinnaker.
Filmed in front of a live audience at the opening event launching the Centre for Computing History's 'Viva Computer' project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
I owe my entire career to the BBC Micro. My dad walked through the door one evening with a Model B, Microvitec monitor and 40/80 track switchable 5.25" floppy drive. He said to my mum, "be quiet, this is the future. He needs it". He was an engineer at WHSmiths at the time in charge of all the machines in shops back offices and all the tills. he got it spot on. Thanks dad!
Its Mathew Kelly!
Great talk. Fascinating.
Anybody recognise Herman Hauser in the audience?
Yeah, he can be seen several times. Check the front row @48:48, on the left (when looking towards the stage), the guy wearing a brownish jacket next to that "learn to code" sign.
Yes I can recognize that loser from a mile away.
@@PauloConstantino167 I really wish to become loser like him .
great as always,thanks so much
After you've been working with the 6502 for so long... RISC probably just seems obvious.
Very interesting :) I was the proud owner of a BBC B back in the early eighties, I can still write simple programs on Beeb Em ..a Beeb Emulator and now have every single game/ app I could have ever dreamt of owning when I had to buy and load them via cassette ..slowwwwwwly! a 5 1/2 inch floppy disk was a lightning fast but too costly way of storing information back then
This is all fascinating, how has this Channel got such a small following?
Edit, If only slightly irritating that the guy starts going on about 'Trigger Warnings' like there are 12 year old girls in the room , christ almighty.
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Very interesting. Thanks
Really enjoyable cheers
@Steve Furber . Why does a piece of paper, when dropped, always land at a 45 degree angle to the floor?
'cos you hav'nt buttered it.
Steve mentions the computer automation lsi-4 in passing,, Sinclair Radionics had a computer automation Alpha 16, Dr. Martin Richards at Cambridge university wrote his portable language BCPL on a computer automation LSI-2, later a LSI-4,, His PHd students wrote an operating system called Tripos in BCPL on this machine ( later ported by metacomco to the 68000 and the commodore amiga ) One of those students, Paul Bond, among others wrote the OZ os for the Z88, at protecnic . like unix OZ included pipes. Look at the command line interpriter section and "redirection"... www.worldofspectrum.org/z88forever/dn327/stdiocli.htm or cambridgez88.jira.com/wiki/display/UG45/Section+Seven+-+Filer+reference#SectionSeven-Filerreference-CLI_Files
hello ive found another game code lander program disc and it maybe the one with sound on but i cant get it to work any1 know how to make it work?
Thank you. i enjoyed this.
hello does any 1 know how to get sound from lander in risc os acorn archimedes at all? thanks
Lander doesn't have sound, but it's basically a cut down version of a game called Zarch, which does.
Great talk, but a pity as always that academics can't keep the lefty politics out of the room. Being welded to the teat of the EU isn't more important than a long list of other issues I won't mention here, and isn't necessary for relevant funding. Indeed, all I saw in academia was a lot of EU funding simply being wasted due to there being so little oversight over how it was used. However, still very interesting to hear how the ARM came about, some background of the Beeb development, the AI work, etc.
And to the channel creators, yes it is rather odd as others have said that this channel is not more widely known, given the significant visibility of others such as ComputerPhile, LGR, 8Bit Guy, Nostalgia Nerd, etc. I hope the channel can grow since it certainly deserves greater attention.
May I recommend considering future video material to coincide with particular vintage computing anniversaries, I've seen this strategy work well to bring publicity to a channel with a low sub count. People will be searching for the relevant topic anyway, so it's a good way of exploiting the prevailing interest of the time.
I agree with what you say about the lefty politics ..it could well put people off of watching all of the video due to insults aimed towards Brexiteers.
The reason why you feel academic people "can't keep the lefty politics out of the room" is that what you see as "lefty" is in matter of fact very moderate and centrist.
The more relevant question is: Why far right-wing nuts consider every policy against their world view as "lefty"?
@@TheFusedplug Yep agreed - but at 33:15 he makes a Freudian slip and aims the insult at remainers - LOL
It's a reminder of just how nasty the academic world were about those they considered below them: who had the temerity to actuallly vote against their instructions.
We were all so stupid, so "vile" - just for wanting to be governed one way rather than another.
And we can't forget the routine accusation of racism. They had to get that in, somehow.
Yes, folks, British academia, pride of the world, all thinking like a herd of sheep, with not a trace of dissent or even just trying to be the devil's advocate (exactly what our academics must do at all times); and encouraging the nasty political tactics of the new Left.
@@TheUglyGnomeok lefty the guy is a condescending and ignorant Matthew Kelly lookalike. You are definitely a lefty lunatic
Curious to know what his thoughts are on the sale of ARM Plc :( although maybe it's for the best but I suspect, in a couple of years Softbank will move the HQ to the EU so all those jobs will be lost. The jobs they "claim" they will create will probably be "untenable on further investigation" but by that time it will be too late as they'll already own it and can do what they want.
Yeah, why did they sell - short-sightedness?
Matthew Kelly lookalike from the guardian😂 he is so annoying that he ruins this. He seems distracted and should Keep politics out of it. Steve even seemed to be getting annoyed with his globalist outbursts
Why the stupid politics? Oh...the presenter's a Guardian person... Otherwise interesting thanks
BUS,,, Tube,,,, more likely... UNIX graduates,, Unix has PIPES & Filters.... so a hardware Pipe might be a TUBE,, maybe?
Nope The Archimedes has pipe commands.