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I hadn\u2019t realised just how important the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BBC_Micro\">BBC Micro<\/a> had been in creating the design. The story of Wilson and her colleagues being motivated by seeing how small the team was when they visited <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Design_Center\">Western Design Center<\/a> reminded me of the tale of Steve Jobs visiting Xerox PARC and seeing a graphical user interface and mouse for the first time, even if <a href=\"https:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/dept\/SUL\/sites\/mac\/parc.html\">the latter may not be completely true<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r2e-oJbngh0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2022\/06\/01\/%f0%9f%93%ba-interview-with-sophie-wilson\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to \ud83d\udcfa Interview with Sophie Wilson\"><div class='e-content p-summary'>I enjoyed this interview with Sophie Wilson, co-inventor of the ARM processor architecture. I hadn\u2019t realised just how important the BBC Micro had been in creating the design. The story of Wilson and her colleagues being motivated by seeing how small the team was when they visited Western Design Center reminded me of the tale [&hellip;]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6964,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2021\/02\/27\/6964\/","url_meta":{"origin":9092,"position":0},"title":"\ud83c\udfa5 My choice for family\u2026","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"27 February 2021","format":"status","excerpt":"\ud83c\udfa5 My choice for family movie night was Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005). 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