According to wikipedia:
>She subsequently joined Acorn Computers and was instrumental in designing the BBC Micro, including the BBC BASIC programming language whose development she led for the next 15 years.
>She subsequently joined Acorn Computers and was instrumental in designing the BBC Micro, including the BBC BASIC programming language whose development she led for the next 15 years.
Thinking about all this made me remember https://archive.org/details/arm-archimedes-assembly-language..., which as I recall was a pretty decent introduction to how microprocessors work (of the RISC variety, anyway).
Funnily enough I downloaded that ARM assembly language book last week in the course of writing up a couple of blog posts on RISC. (Shameless plug: first one on the IBM 801 should be our over the weekend - link in my bio if of interest.)