There was once a computer company which needed a microprocessor. Its efforts to license one, and to buy one, came to nothing, so it decided to make one. The only thing was that it didn't have much money and didn't have many people.
So the company's CEO asked two brilliant employees to design the microprocessor.
The CEO said: "I gave them two things which National, Intel and Motorola had never given their microprocessor design teams: the first was no money; the second was no people. The only way they could do it was to keep it really simple."
The brilliant duo designed the microprocessor which is now the best selling microprocessor on the planet.
MORAL: Adversity can be a positive.
Thanks!
--Sophie (I guess I speak for Steve, too)
That's really appreciated Sophie - great to get a comment from a true superstar. On Tuesday 26th we've got a poll: 'What was the best microprocessor of all time?' One of the contestants, naturally, is ARM1.
Its got a little competition - see:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/may09/8747/3
among the 25 microchips that shook the world are several microprocessors.
and my own favourite is, of course...
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/may09/8749/3
--Sophie
Sophie, that's fantastic - you're part of history!