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One of the leading lights in the British Computer industry has been honoured in the New years honours list.  Professor Andrew Hopper, has now been made a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) for services to the computer industry. And in 1978 he was a co founder of Acorn Computers

Now there are 2 reasons why this man may have had an influence on your life.

If you’re British, and about my age, you probably grew up with the BBC micro computer in schools.. which pretty much was responsible for teaching BASIC to an entire generation.

If you don’t fall into the above category, you may be interested to know that  one of the subsidiaries of Acorn was Advanced RISC Machines, – Also know as ARM… as in the ARM Processor which still drives most PDAs and Pocket PC phones .

source: BBC

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