ARM – A Long Road To The Top Apple’s Newton PDA was one of the first applications of the ARM processor outside Acorn’s failed computer business. The ARM processor was created by Acorn ...

With the first release of the Apple Newton in 1992, it was classified as a PDA, a “personal digital assistant”. Most notably, it promised to perform functions that were figments of our ...

Mike Magee reports. Gil Amelio's position as chief executive of Apple looked increasingly shaky as the company announced its decision to dump the Newton PDA business. The news came only one day ...