- Sophie Wilson
Sophie Wilson, formerly Roger Wilson, is a British
computer scientist . She was educated atCambridge University . In 1978, she designed the Acorn Micro-Computer, the first of a long line of computers sold byAcorn Computers Ltd .cite web |url=http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic/history.html |first=R. T. |last=Russell |title=A History of BBC BASIC |accessdate=2007-06-10]In 1981, Wilson extended the
Acorn Atom 'sBASIC programming language dialect into an improved version for the Acorn Proton, a microcomputer that enabled Acorn to win the contract with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for their ambitious computer education project, whereupon the Proton became theBBC Micro and its BASIC was developed intoBBC BASIC . In 1983, she designed the instruction set for one of the firstRISC processors, the Acorn RISC Machine (ARM), later to become one of the most successful IP-cores (i.e., a licenced CPU core) of the 1990s and 2000s.Wilson designed Acorn Replay, the video architecture for Acorn machines. This included the operating system extensions for video access as well as the
codec s themselves, optimised to run high frame rate video on ARM CPUs from the ARM 2 onwards.Wilson was a member of the board of the technology and games company Eidos plc, which bought and created
Eidos Interactive , for the years following its flotation in 1990, and was a consultant toARM Ltd when it was split off from Acorn in 1990.See also
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Acorn Computers
*Hermann Hauser References
External links
* [http://www.cary.demon.co.uk/acorn/acornWilson.html An interview with Sophie Wilson]
* [http://www.sophie.org.uk Sophie Wilson's home page]
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