'But somehow it never clicked and then I saw Larry Tesler of Apple and told
him about the ARM, andhe was working on the Newton at the time. And he was
working with the Hobbit. And God knowswhat made him prefer the ARM over the
Hobbit, because if you looked at the performance of theHobbit and the ARM, they
were very comparable in many ways.
And what he argued-- and of course he turned out to be completely right--
was that he did nottrust a $2 billion electronics subsidiary of AT&T, AT&T
microelectronics. He did not trust them tosupport that microprocessor.
Whereas he argued if I help ARM to be spun out, they had no whereelse to go.
They've got to do that processor. They will not discontinue it.
'
source :
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/video/32/#p3s:6504780&p3e:6559920
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Xavier Louis TARDY
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