• Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978. The company produced a number of computers which were especially...
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    Acorn Archimedes is a series of personal computers designed by Acorn Computers in Cambridge, England, that were launched in 1987. These systems were powered...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    from studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. She subsequently joined Acorn Computers and was instrumental in designing the BBC Microcomputer, including...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    alternative to the BBC Micro educational/home computer, also developed by Acorn Computers Ltd, to provide many of the features of that more expensive machine...
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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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    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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    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 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 Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for computer processors. Arm Ltd. develops...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    BBC Master (redirect from Acorn BBC Master)
    The BBC Master is a home computer released by Acorn Computers in early 1986. It was designed and built for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and...
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  • BBC Domesday Project (category Acorn Computers)
    The BBC Domesday Project was a partnership between Acorn Computers, Philips, Logica, and the BBC (with some funding from the European Commission's ESPRIT...
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