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Advanced RISC Machines
Phil Started conversation May 19, 2000
ARM doesn't stand for Acorn RISC Machines (at least not for many years) but acoring to the company's website Advanced RISC Machines.
The people who designed the first ARM chip had no prior chip design experience, but were more from a software background. I think it's great that they managed to produce what has become a great family of chips.
They are the workhorse behind a large number of mobile phones and handheld computers (remember the Newton anybody 
). If you wanted to be totaly hardcore and roll your own, designs for handheld computers based round StrongARM chips have been published on the web!
Advanced RISC Machines
Mark Moxon Posted May 19, 2000
I'll hop in and change it. ARM used to stand for Acorn RISC Machine, but ARM Ltd changed that to Advanced RISC Machine.
As the entry will reflect in two seconds...
Advanced RISC Machines
Phil Posted May 19, 2000
I think they've used the A as advanced since they formed ARM...
(from the ARM website)
1990
Advanced RISC Machines (ARM[tm]) spins out of Acorn and Apple Computer's collaboration efforts with a charter to create a new microprocessor standard.
I saw your entry in another thread about being a RiscOS journalist, so do you still have the toaster then
Just had a guy start here who was wearing a RiscOS sweatshirt earlier on in the week - respect!
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Researcher 103882 Posted May 19, 2000
The origional press release (about ARM Ltd.) said Acorn RISC Machines.
-OPD
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Phil Posted May 19, 2000
Don't shoot the messenger 
They now don't even bother defining what ARM stands for.
I thought any non beige box ends up being a toaster (well apart from SUN who used pizza boxes )
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