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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startup", it combined teams from Acorn, Inmos/STMicroelectronics and Alcatel. By January 1999, Acorn Computers Ltd. had renamed to Element 14 Limited...
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Acorn Computers Ltd was a British computer company based in Nottingham, England in the United Kingdom between 2006 and 2009. It licensed, in early 2006...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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ARX (operating system) (redirect from Acorn ARX (operating system))
developed by Acorn Computers Ltd in the Acorn Research Centre (ARC) United Kingdom (UK) and later by Olivetti—which purchased Acorn—for Acorn's new Archimedes...
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children's magazine published in 1985 BBC Micro, a home computer built for the BBC by Acorn Computers Ltd., nicknamed "The Beeb" BBC Online, the BBC's Internet...
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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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share in the British computer manufacturer Acorn Computers Ltd; a third partner was Thomson SA. Olivetti sold the Thomson MO6 and Acorn BBC Master Compact...
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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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Christopher Curry (businessman) (category Acorn Computers)
businessman and the co-founder of Acorn Computers, with Hermann Hauser and Andy Hopper. He became a millionaire as a result of Acorn's success. In his early career...
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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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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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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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language. It was developed at DEC Systems Research Center (SRC) and Acorn Computers Ltd Research Centre in Palo Alto, California. Modula-2+ is Modula-2 with...
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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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Kansas City standard (redirect from Computer Users' Tape Standard)
for S-100 computers", supported the Kansas City Standard in addition to the Tarbell "native" mode ("Tarbell standard"). Acorn Computers Ltd implemented...
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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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The A7000 and A7000+ were Acorn Computers' entry level computers based somewhat on the Risc PC architecture. Launched in 1995, the A7000 was considered...
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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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Sinclair Research (redirect from Cambridge Computer Ltd.)
postponed, ostensibly due to turmoil in the microcomputer industry, with Acorn Computers undergoing refinancing, and other companies such as Sinclair's competitor...
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supported by ESPRIT were: BBC Domesday Project, a partnership between Acorn Computers Ltd, Philips, Logica and the BBC with some funding from the European...
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Acorn User magazine was founded by Acorn Computers in 1982, contract-published by Addison-Wesley, to coincide with the launch of the BBC Micro. It covered...
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Ltd was dissolved on 14 May 2013. RISCOS Ltd was formed to continue end-user-focused development of RISC OS after the de-listing of Acorn Computers,...
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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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