• 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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  • 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 family of personal computers designed by Acorn Computers of Cambridge, England. The systems are based on Acorn's own ARM architecture...
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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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  • 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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    BBC Micro (redirect from Acorn Proton)
    a series of microcomputer designed and built by Acorn Computers Limited in the 1980s for the Computer Literacy Project of the BBC. Designed with an emphasis...
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  • Acornsoft (category Acorn Computers)
    Micro/Acorn Electron and included as standard in the BBC Master and Acorn Business Computer. Acornsoft was formed in late 1980 by Acorn Computers directors...
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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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  • 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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    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 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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    The Acorn Electron (nicknamed the Elk inside Acorn and beyond) was a lower-cost alternative to the BBC Micro educational/home computer, also developed...
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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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    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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    BBC Micro expansion unit (category Acorn Computers)
    with the same profile and styling as the main computer. The second processors are connected to Acorn's proprietary and trademarked Tube interface. Only...
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  • line of computers by Dataindustrier AB Acorn Business Computer, a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers...
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  • running Panos, which was later sold as the Acorn Business Computer. The program was subsequently ported to Acorn's Archimedes running Arthur and later ported...
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    (later to co-found Acorn) who had interested Clive Sinclair in the computer market. Following the commercial success of a kit computer in 1977 aimed at...
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    Econet (redirect from Acorn NetFS)
    Econet was Acorn Computers's low-cost local area network system, intended for use by schools and small businesses. It was widely used in those areas, and...
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  • Tube (BBC Micro) (category Acorn Computers)
    processor running Panos. These coprocessors form the basis of the Acorn Business Computer series, the higher end machines being repackaged BBC Micros with...
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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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  • Xara (redirect from Computer Concepts)
    developed software for a variety of computer platforms, in chronological order: the Acorn Atom, BBC Micro, Z88, Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes, Microsoft Windows...
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    RISC iX (category Acorn Computers operating systems)
    led to the Acorn Cambridge Workstation - the surviving product from the Acorn Business Computer range - shipping with a proprietary Acorn operating system...
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  • Element 14 (company) (category Acorn Computers)
    of Acorn Computers. As "a three-site startup", it combined teams from Acorn, Inmos/STMicroelectronics and Alcatel. By January 1999, Acorn Computers Ltd...
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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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  • 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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    demonstration on the 80286-based Acorn Business Computer in September 1984 where the software had been attributed to Acorn, and the system was shipped as...
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    practical stored program computer when it ran its first program on 6 May 1949. It inspired the world's first business computer, LEO. It was replaced by...
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  • DeskLite (category Acorn Computers)
    The DeskLite was a thin client launched in 1998 by Acorn Computers. It was designed to provide access to Microsoft Windows applications via Citrix ICA...
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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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