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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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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BBC Micro (redirect from Acorn Proton)
microcomputers developed and manufactured by Acorn Computers in the early 1980s as part of the BBC's Computer Literacy Project. Launched in December 1981...
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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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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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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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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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RISC OS (redirect from Acorn RISC OS)
computers. Originally designed in 1987 by Acorn Computers of England, it was made for use in its new line of ARM-based Archimedes personal computers and...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Risc PC (redirect from Acorn PC card)
PC was a range of personal computers launched in 1994 by Acorn, replacing the Archimedes series. The machines use the Acorn developed ARM CPU and were...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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List of operating systems (section Acorn Computers)
BSD 4.3, by Acorn computers, for their ARM family of machines RISC/os (a port by MIPS Technologies of 4.3BSD for its MIPS-based computers) RMX SCO UNIX...
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Operating System (MOS) or OS is a discontinued computer operating system (OS) used in Acorn Computers' BBC computer range. It included support for four-channel...
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Disc Filing System (redirect from Acorn DFS)
calling for the supply of personal computers to their schools. Acorn's Australian computer distributor, Barson Computers, convinced Joint Managing Directors...
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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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