Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England in 1978 by Hermann Hauser, Chris Curry and Andy Hopper. The company...
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The Acorn Archimedes is a family of personal computers designed by Acorn Computers of Cambridge, England. The systems in this family use Acorn's own ARM...
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BBC Micro (redirect from Acorn Proton)
series of microcomputers designed and built by Acorn Computers Limited in the 1980s for the Computer Literacy Project of the BBC. The machine was the...
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The Acorn Business Computer (ABC) was a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers. The series of eight...
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the dormant Acorn Computers trademark from French company Aristide & Co Antiquaire De Marques. This company sold IBM PC compatible computers and had no...
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RISC OS (redirect from Acorn RISC OS)
RISC OS (/rɪsk.oʊˈɛs/) is a computer operating system originally designed by Acorn Computers Ltd in Cambridge, England. First released in 1987, it was...
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The Acorn Network Computer was a network computer (a type of thin client) designed and manufactured by Acorn Computers Ltd. It was the implementation of...
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The Acorn System was a series of modular microcomputer systems based on rack-mounted Eurocards developed by Acorn Computers from 1979 to 1982, aimed primarily...
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RISC OS, the computer operating system developed by Acorn Computers for their ARM-based Acorn Archimedes range, was originally released in 1987 as Arthur...
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Sophie Wilson (redirect from Roger Wilson (computer scientist))
from studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. She subsequently joined Acorn Computers and was instrumental in designing the BBC Microcomputer, including...
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The Acorn Atom is a home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd from 1980 to 1982, when it was replaced by the BBC Micro. The BBC Micro began life as an...
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Computers designed or built in Britain include: Acorn Computers Acorn Eurocard systems Acorn System 1 Acorn Atom BBC Micro Acorn Electron BBC Master Acorn...
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editor for macOS Acorn Computers (1978–1998), a manufacturer of computers Acorn, the development code name for the IBM 5150 PC. Acorn Computers (2006), a manufacturer...
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to computers and show them what they were capable of. The BBC wanted to use their own computer, so the BBC Micro was developed by Acorn Computers as part...
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graphics and publishing industries. In 1994, Acorn Computers launched its Risc PC range of desktop computers as the successor to the Archimedes. The machines...
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BBC BASIC (category Acorn Computers)
programming language. It was developed by Acorn Computers Ltd when they were selected by the BBC to supply the computer for their BBC Literacy Project in 1981...
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alternative to the BBC Micro educational/home computer, also developed by Acorn Computers, to provide many of the features of that more expensive machine at...
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list excludes smartphones, personal digital assistants, pocket computers, laptop computers, programmable calculators and pure video game consoles. Single-board...
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The Acorn Online Media Set Top Box was produced by the Online Media division of Acorn Computers Ltd for the Cambridge Cable and Online Media Video on...
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ARM architecture family (redirect from Acorn Risc Machine)
RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for computer processors. Arm Holdings develops...
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Econet (redirect from Acorn NetFS)
tender for the supply of personal computers to their schools. Earlier that year Barson Computers, Acorn's Australian computer distributor, had released the...
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Acornsoft (category Acorn Computers)
Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, it also produced...
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RiscPC 2) was to be Acorn Computers' successor to the RiscPC, slated for release in late 1998. However, in September 1998, Acorn cancelled the project...
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hobbyists, based on the MOS 6502 CPU, and produced by British company Acorn Computers from 1979. The main parts of the system were designed by then-Cambridge-undergraduate...
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The Acorn Communicator is a discontinued business computer developed by Acorn Computers. Mentioned in the computing press in late 1984 as the C30, previewed...
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RISC iX (category Acorn Computers operating systems)
"Acorn Newsletter" (PDF). No. 16. Acorn Computers Limited. 1990. p. 1. "Acorn Releases Floating Point Accelerator" (Press release). Acorn Computers Limited...
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Psion Series 3 (redirect from Acorn Pocket Book)
Psion Series 3aR, and Acorn Computers sold renamed versions of the Psion Series 3 and 3a marketed as the Acorn Pocket Book and Acorn Pocket Book II. The...
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Steve Furber (category Acorn Computers)
the University of Cambridge (BA, MMath, PhD), he spent the 1980s at Acorn Computers, where he was a principal designer of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit...
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Risc PC (redirect from Acorn PC card)
Risc PC was a range of personal computers launched in 1994 by Acorn and replaced the preceding Archimedes series. The machines had a unique architecture...
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operating system created by Acorn Computers RISC OS character set, used in the Acorn Archimedes History of RISC OS, Acorn Computers OS history RISC OS Open...
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