Sophie Wilson at ROUGOL, Mon 19th April 2021

The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London (online) is:

The Future of Microprocessors, presented by Sophie Wilson CBE

Monday 19th April 2021, 7.45pm

Online via Zoom, meeting open from 7.30pm

http://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/

Exactly 11 years since her previous visit to a packed ROUGOL, we are delighted to virtually welcome back Sophie Wilson to talk to us about the development of microprocessors, past, present, and future.

Sophie needs little introduction to Acorn/RISC OS users, having been co-designer of the BBC Micro, designer of the ARM instruction set, and author of BBC BASIC (6502 and ARM versions). She is also a Broadcom Fellow and Distinguished Engineer, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and has an honorary doctorate of science from Cambridge University and a CBE.

After the talk there will be a Q&A session, providing an amazing opportunity to have those questions that have always puzzled you answered by one of the most influential people on modern computing.

This meeting will be held online via Zoom. Please contact us to receive a link to the meeting on the day. If you have last month’s link, it’s the same one!

http://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/contacts/

Reminder that this meeting is this coming Monday!

I’ve sent out the Zoom link to everyone who requested it, so if you haven’t received a reply let me know.

Bryan.

Can someone ask her if she’d awfully mind porting her BASIC interpreter from assembler to C?

Are you not brave enough to ask her yourself, Charlotte? 8~)

Edit: understandable if so. I’m not…

Can someone ask her if she’d awfully mind porting her BASIC interpreter from assembler to C?

Brandy BASIC exists.

Brandy BASIC exists

GPL is a bit unhelpful for putting in a ‘RISC OS 64’ ROM though!

Can someone ask her if she’d awfully mind porting her BASIC interpreter from assembler to C?

As Steve and Sophie were responsible for designing the elegant 26 bit ARM instruction set, and she hand crafted BBC Basic in it as proof of concept, asking that would be a sacrilege.

GPL is a bit unhelpful

I thought the next argument about GPL wasn’t due until Wednesday?

GPL is a bit unhelpful for putting in a ‘RISC OS 64’ ROM though!

Shh, the war is over, although I expect the pointer was perhaps to not having it in the ROM which would sidestep that neatly.

I thought the next argument about GPL wasn’t due until Wednesday?

Ah, if you have a Microsoft watch that starts in a few minutes, or if it’s RO then the announcement will be on the web site in 2025

A RISC OS ROM without BASIC? Heresy, I say ;-)

Did the meeting get recorded? I missed the live stream but would love to watch.

Yes likewise I missed this event but would love to watch if it was recorded. great work for getting such a good guest speaker though.

Apologies for the delay, the video is now available – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lOnpQgn-9s