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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which were especially popular in the UK, including the Acorn Electron and the Acorn Archimedes. Acorn's BBC Micro computer dominated the UK educational computer...
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modular system strongly influenced the design of Acorn's first all-in-one home computer, the Acorn Atom, released in March 1980; and also much of the circuitry...
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smartphones and tablets Acorn Atom, an early 1980s home computer Atom (web standard), an XML-based web syndication format Atom (programming language),...
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the BBC science-fiction series Blake's 7. Acorn System 2 Acorn System 3 Acorn System 4 Acorn System 5 Acorn Atom Meyer, David (November 19, 2010). "Dead...
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Motorola 6847 video display generator chip, as used in the Dragon 32 and Acorn Atom among others. At least three emulators for the system exist. The machine...
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variety of computer platforms, in chronological order: the Acorn Atom, BBC Micro, Z88, Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and more recently...
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include: Acorn Computers Acorn Eurocard systems Acorn System 1 Acorn Atom BBC Micro Acorn Electron BBC Master Acorn Archimedes RiscPC Acorn Network Computer...
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List of computer system emulators (section Acorn Atom)
required host environment and licensing. While the ARM processor in the Acorn Archimedes is a 32-bit chip, it only had 26-bit addressing making an ARM/Archimedes...
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BBC Micro (redirect from Acorn Proton)
the television programmes and literature, Acorn won the contract with the Proton, a successor of its Atom computer prototyped at short notice. Renamed...
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Acorn System BASIC and Atom BASIC are two closely related dialects of the BASIC programming language developed by Acorn Computers for their early microcomputers...
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was Acorn Computers's low-cost local area network system, intended for use by schools and small businesses. It was first developed for the Acorn Atom and...
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rival Acorn Computers put forward their proposed Proton computer, a design – of which a prototype did not yet exist – based on the Acorn Atom. To Sinclair's...
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Econet (redirect from Acorn NetFS)
turn superseded by the Acorn Access+ software. Econet was specified in 1980, and first developed for the Acorn Atom and Acorn System 2/3/4 computers in...
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1982, Johnson-Davies wrote Practical Programs for the BBC Computer and Acorn Atom. In 1986, he left Acornsoft and established Human Computer Interface shortly...
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Home computers and video game consoles using the 6502 or its variants Acorn Atom Acorn Electron Apple I Apple II Apple IIe Atari 2600 Atari 5200 Atari 7800...
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Dragon 32/64, Laser 200, TRS-80 MC-10/Matra Alice, NEC PC-6000 series, Acorn Atom, Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy and the APF Imagination Machine, among others...
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processing API on the operating systems for the Acorn Atom and the BBC Micro, and on RISC OS for the Acorn Archimedes and later machines, use the vertical...
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Adventure (1982 video game) (category Acorn Atom games)
published in the UK by Micro Power. It was released on the Acorn Atom in 1982 and on the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro in 1983. The game is a text adventure...
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Sophie Wilson (category Acorn Computers)
customers, which in turn led to the Acorn Eurocard rack systems made generally available, and then the Acorn Atom released in March 1980. Wilson, initially...
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Manic Miner (category BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games)
500 best games of all time. Unofficial ports exist for the Acorn Archimedes, Acorn Atom, Acorn Electron, Atari ST, Cambridge Z88, Commodore 128, HP48, Linux...
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game console is released only in Germany. Computer The Sinclair ZX80 and Acorn Atom are the first home computers to play games in the UK. Tandy releases the...
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the launch of the BBC Micro. It covered the range of Acorn home computers, the BBC Micro and Atom at first and later the Electron, Archimedes and Risc...
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keyboards were used on most 8-bit computers such as the Acorn BBC computers and the earlier Atom and Systems, the Amstrad CPC series, and (to an extent)...
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mail order. Ultimately, the BBC chose Acorn and standardized on a successor to the Acorn Atom—originally named Acorn Proton, but ultimately branded as the...
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Motorola and used in the TRS-80 Color Computer, Dragon 32/64, Laser 200 and Acorn Atom among others. The MOS Technology 6560 (NTSC) and 6561 (PAL) are known...
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Tokenization Acorn Atom Atom BASIC, BBC BASIC I (Upgrade ROM) Acorn Electron BBC BASIC II Sophie Wilson Yes No I:32; FP:32/8 Partial Acorn BBC Micro BBC...
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entitled Interface. This User Group then expanded to include the ZX81, Acorn Atom and Spectrum computers, and provided a springboard for Tim and Trevor...
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ARM architecture family (redirect from Acorn Risc Machine)
lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for...
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all the connections. While two early home computers (Sinclair ZX80 and Acorn Atom) could be bought either in kit form or assembled, most home computers...
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