Hi folks,
I may be in the wrong topic area, but I would just like to relate to you my recent experience. Last week I got out my RISC PC600 (with Strong ARM CPU) and fired it up. A real nostalgia trip. I also had bought a Raspberry Pi3 and had installed Rasbian on it. I had a 3:4 ratio LCD monitor I pressed into service to share for both of them. I noticed there was a new Arduino IDE advertised today, so I looked it up and to my utter surprise and pleasure it was also advertising an ARM version of the Arduino IDE. It said only experimental, well I thought I have little to lose, I will try it. I downloaded and installed it, and it started just fine. Wow! To go the next step I attach my Arduino Mini-Pro and successfully programmed the "Classic" Blinking LED into the Arduino. Second Wow!
I was gobsmacked!! I have attached a picture of the RISC PC600 Strong ARM machine (c. 1994) on the left and the RPi3 on the right with an Arduino Pro-Mini attached. Unfortunately I can't show them both running at the same time as they share the monitor, but believe me the RISC PC does work.
As an original ARM fan, this is a huge circle for me completed. Not really a hack, but so much history.
Cheers, Rob
