This is the first chapter of ‘The ARM RISC chip: a programmer’s guide’ published by Addison-Wesley at the end of 1993, and documenting the prehistory and very early years of what was then ARM Ltd, developing RISC CPUs for desktop computers and increasingly for mobile platforms.

Chapter in Paradox and Power in Caring Leadership: Critical and Philosophical Reflections (2020), edited by Leah Tomkins, published by Edward Elgar, pp. 75-85.

When Xenophon, the fourth-century BCE Athenian soldier and writer, and once one of Socrates’ students, tried to explain the nature of leadership, in his extended case study and b…[Read more]