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On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 22:26:58 +0300, Michael S wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 17:38:54 -0000 (UTC)
> Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
> 
>> ARM was rather late to the RISC game, this might have been literally
>> true.
> 
> ARM was rather early to the RISC game. Shipped for profit since late
> 1986.

Shipped in an actual PC, the Acorn Archimedes range.

That was the first time I ever saw a 3D shaded rendition of a flag waving, 
on a computer, generated in real time. No other machine could do it, 
unless you got up to the really expensive Unix workstation class (e.g. 
SGI, custom Evans & Sutherland hardware etc).