iphone for geeks
© 2007 Apple Inc."The Apple iPhone runs on an ARM architecture CPU" I read on Apple news sites. I had never heard of this architecture and went to wikipedia.org/ARM_architecture to find some very interesting facts:
ARM stands for "Advanced RISC Machine" which is the name of the company developing the architecture
OS X was running on RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) architecture before the switch to Intels CISC (Complex …)The first usable architecture, the ARMv2, was developed in 1985
pretty old stuff *cough*ARMv3 powered Apples Newton!
All the people speculating about a redesign of the Apple Newton were very right tooARMv4T runs the iPod and the Nintendo DS
Apples software developers already knew the platformARMv5TE runs various Mobile Phones, Palms, SmartPhones and Mobile Gaming Consoles
ARMv6 runs the Zune and - what an irony - the iPhone!
I bet M$' Bill G. wants to lynch his product developers *biggrin*
I am looking forward to where this (according to Apple) third revolutionary product leads the Industry. And I am certainly longing to see the iPhone V2 or later providing laptop computing possibilities in your pocket!
