It's historically relevant that at the time of those remarkable accomplishments Sophie was named "Roger". And this is an article about history, isn't it?
Nope. Same brain, name is irrelevant.
Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM
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Re: Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM
#62It's historically relevant that at the time of those remarkable accomplishments Sophie was named "Roger". And this is an article about history, isn't it?
Another good example is Lynn Conway [1][2], that together with Carver Mead wrote "Introduction to VLSI System Design" bestseller that would catalyze the Mead & Conway revolution [3] in VLSI design in late 70's, early 80's.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway
[2] http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/conway.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead_%26_Conway_revolution
Re: Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Windows and Mac OS were both cooperatively multitasking until 1995 and 2001, although they did have more memory protection than RISC OS. As to the worldview, everyone had their own worldview before the internet, / vs \ vs : vs . Mac OS Classic had filetypes, same as RISC OS. Bit odd that the web uses them really, considering it has mimetypes. The RISC OS GUI is still miles ahead of everyone else. Its application pack…
The GUI was amazing, and is still one of the easiest-to-use GUIs I've ever encountered, even though there were some major omissions, the main one being total lack of accessibility --- you couldn't drive it from the keyboard at all . (Win 3.1, OTOH, had amazingly good accessibility and still beats a lot of modern software.) The underlying OS was not amazing. There were some good parts; the relocatable module system wa…
Weird and wonderful it was, but also amazingly hackable. Using similar tricks to the allocator, I was able to "ROM patch" RISC OS 3.1 to look like 3.5 [1] using only a few bytes of module space. I do miss those days :)
Re: Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM
#64Even if you have an Intel-based phone in your pocket, it probably has ARM cores in it too. They get everywhere :-)
Are you sure about that? (I hear they use low-end x86 cores and ARC cores but I haven't heard about ARM. ARC in general is very hackable while ARM is not hackable at all, so those rumors made sense to me.)
A lot of flash media controllers use an arm core, for example. Also, Intel uses ARM's graphics in some of their low power consumption chips [2]. Because ARM chips sip power so well, you find them in some really surprising places.
[1] http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554
[2] http://techreport.com/news/27878/atom-x3-chips-target-cheap-...
Re: Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM
#65It's historically relevant that at the time of those remarkable accomplishments Sophie was named "Roger". And this is an article about history, isn't it?
It might be an interesting adjunct to how a part of the tech community treated one of their own with acceptance but beyond that, no, not terribly relevant. If anything, that's entirely incidental to the story, other than the fact that the Acorn community was very accepting of her transition. Consider the following scenario. Let's say Sophie was born female and never needed to transition. Now, let's say that she got m…
Well, it is pretty common to see the married woman case handled as "Sophie Wilson (née MaidenName)" in biographical material.
Re: Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM
#66It's historically relevant that at the time of those remarkable accomplishments Sophie was named "Roger". And this is an article about history, isn't it?
What relevance do you see? Certainly seems to have no relationship to the topic at first glance, but your perspective may enlighten.
It's an important clarification, just like we call the artist that insists on using a new graphic symbol for his stage name "the artist formerly known as Prince".
How else are we going to keep track of one person's name changes over the years? It's just common sense, really.
Re: Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
It might be an interesting adjunct to how a part of the tech community treated one of their own with acceptance but beyond that, no, not terribly relevant. If anything, that's entirely incidental to the story, other than the fact that the Acorn community was very accepting of her transition. Consider the following scenario. Let's say Sophie was born female and never needed to transition. Now, let's say that she got m…
Well, it is pretty common to see the married woman case handled as "Sophie Wilson (née MaidenName)" in biographical material.
In biographical information, sometimes, but rarely in the middle of an article.
Re: Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, it is pretty common to see the married woman case handled as "Sophie Wilson (née MaidenName)" in biographical material.
In biographical information, sometimes, but rarely in the middle of an article.
The article includes a short paragraph of biographical information, including her date and place of birth - maiden name would usually be mentioned with that, especially if she had done relevant work under her maiden name.
Re: Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM
#69Amazing woman. She needs a knighthood.
You mean a damehood.
Re: Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM
#70It's historically relevant that at the time of those remarkable accomplishments Sophie was named "Roger". And this is an article about history, isn't it?
What relevance do you see? Certainly seems to have no relationship to the topic at first glance, but your perspective may enlighten.
The relevance is that Roger Wilson was a notable figure in the 80s and 90s -- he and Steve Furber were a powerhouse team. As far as I know, she transitioned to Sophie after her rise to notability, and she's quite a private person, so it's likely that many people who are very familiar with Roger's work will never have heard of Sophie.