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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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  • 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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    Ltd. It had a built-in minor variation of Acorn System BASIC, a fast but idiosyncratic version of the BASIC programming language developed by Sophie Wilson...
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  • BBC BASIC is an interpreted version of the BASIC programming language. It was developed by Acorn Computers Ltd when they were selected by the BBC to supply...
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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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    Sophie Wilson (category Acorn Computers)
    Cambridge. She subsequently joined Acorn Computers and was instrumental in designing the BBC Microcomputer, including the BBC BASIC programming language. She first...
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    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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    RISC OS (redirect from Acorn RISC OS)
    RISC OS (/rɪsk.oʊˈɛs/) is an operating system designed to run on ARM computers. Originally designed in 1987 by Acorn Computers of England, it was made for...
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    The Acorn Electron (nicknamed the Elk inside Acorn and beyond) was introduced as a lower-cost alternative to the BBC Micro educational/home computer, also...
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  • CP/M Plus, and the Acorn BBC Micro's Zilog Z80 second processor. In the 1980s, it was standard industry practice to bundle a BASIC interpreter with microcomputers...
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  • Disc Filing System (DFS) is a computer file system developed by Acorn Computers, initially as an add-on to the Eurocard-based Acorn System 2. In 1981,...
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  • late 1985 for the basic model, remaining at a similar price level in early 1987 with colour monitor included. Launched as part of Acorn's range of new products...
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    Econet (redirect from Acorn NetFS)
    Econet was Acorn Computers's low-cost local area network system, based on a CSMA-CD serial protocol carried over a five-wire data bus, intended for use...
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    BBC Micro (redirect from Acorn Proton)
    The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a family of microcomputers developed and manufactured by Acorn Computers in the early 1980s as part of...
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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)...
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    The Machine Operating System (MOS) or OS is a discontinued computer operating system (OS) used in Acorn Computers' BBC computer range. It included support...
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  • be installed inside the computer. Advanced Disc Filing System (ADFS) is a successor to Acorn's DFS. AMSDOS is for the Amstrad CPC computers. GDOS and...
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    BBC BASIC, developed by Acorn Computers, incorporates extra structured programming keywords and floating-point features. As the popularity of BASIC grew...
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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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  • 1981 by Charles Moir. It started by developing for various 8-bit systems, such as the Acorn Atom and BBC Micro. It was originally called Computer Concepts...
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    BBC Micro expansion unit (category Acorn Computers)
    Services, and two BASIC implementations: Z80 BBC BASIC and Mallard Professional BASIC. Despite "a policy of continuous improvement", Acorn apparently abandoned...
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    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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  • 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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  • systems are Claritas Prizm (US), CanaCode Lifestyles (Canada), PSYTE HD (Canada), Tapestry (US), CAMEO (UK), ACORN (UK), and MOSAIC (UK). New systems...
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  • Shadow RAM, on the Acorn BBC Micro, Master-series and Acorn Electron microcomputers is the name given to a special framebuffer implementation to free up...
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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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  • ROM-resident interpreter, executes from on-chip RAM (Atmel AVR) Atom BASIC (Acorn Atom) AutoIt (Microsoft Windows) automates other programs, e.g. with...
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  • BBC wanted to use their own computer, so the BBC Micro was developed by Acorn Computers as part of the BBC Computer Literacy Project, and was featured...
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    (1977 — Development board by SD Systems — 300 bauds — S-100 bus) ABC 80 Acorn Computers Ltd Acorn System 1 (300 baud only) Acorn Atom (300 baud standard / 1200...
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  • original code. For instance, the CALL statement of BBC BASIC V treats the system call addresses of Acorn MOS magically; instead of attempting to branch to...
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