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Online Media
A company formed in August 1994 by {Acorn Computer
Group} plc to exploit the ARM RISC in television {set-top
box} decoders. They planned to woo {British
Telecommunications} plc to use the box in some of its {video
on demand} trials.
The "STB1" box was based on an ARM8 core with additional
circuits to enable MPEG to be decoded in software - possibly
dedicated instructions for interpolation, inverse DCT or
Huffman table extraction. A prototype featured audio MPEG
chips, Acorn's RISC OS operating system and supported
Oracle Media Objects and Microword. Online planned to
reduce component count by transferring functions from boards
into the single RISC chip.
The company was origianlly wholly owned by Acorn but was
expected to bring in external investment.
[Article by nobody@tandem.com cross-posted from
tandem.news.computergram, 1994-07-07].
In 1996 they releasd the imaginatively titled "Set Top Box 2"
(STB20M) with a 32 MHz ARM 7500 and 2 to 32 MB RAM. There
was also a "Set Top Box 22".
(http://www.khantazi.org/Archives/MachineLst.html#STB1).
(http://www.mcmordie.co.uk/acornhistory/riscpc700.shtml).
(http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/NC.html).
(2007-11-12)
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