Acorn Computers Ltd | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-16

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00:01:57 1 History
00:02:06 1.1 Early history
00:03:32 1.1.1 CPU Ltd. (1978–83)
00:04:41 1.1.2 The microcomputer systems
00:08:29 1.1.3 The Atom
00:10:43 1.1.4 BBC Micro and the Electron
00:18:22 1.2 1983–1985: Acorn Computer Group
00:19:37 1.2.1 New RISC architecture
00:28:03 1.2.2 Financial problems
00:31:12 1.3 1985–1998: Olivetti subsidiary
00:34:23 1.3.1 BBC Master and Archimedes
00:38:10 1.3.2 ARM Ltd.
00:41:13 1.3.3 Acorn Pocket Book
00:42:34 1.3.4 Set-top boxes
00:46:02 1.3.5 NewsPad
00:47:24 1.3.6 Xemplar Education
00:49:10 1.3.7 Network Computers
00:52:59 1.4 1998–2000: Element 14
00:59:35 1.5 Legacy
01:00:01 1.6 Revival of the Acorn trademark
01:00:24 1.7 2018 Acorn Revival
01:00:51 2 Popular culture
01:01:16 2.1 TV Series
01:01:46 2.2 Magazines
01:02:23 3 See also



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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 popular in the UK, including the Acorn Electron and the Acorn Archimedes. Acorn's BBC Micro computer dominated the UK educational computer market during the 1980s. It is more known for its BBC Micro model B computer than for its other products.
Though the company was broken up into several independent operations in 1998, its legacy includes the development of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) personal computers. One of its operating systems, RISC OS, continues to be developed by RISC OS Open. Some of Acorn's former subsidiaries lived on: ARM Holdings technology is dominant in the mobile phone and personal digital assistant (PDA) microprocessor market.Acorn is sometimes referred to as the "British Apple" and has been compared to Fairchild Semiconductor for being a catalyst for start-ups. In 2010, the company was listed by David Meyer in ZDNet as number nine in a feature of top ten "Dead IT giants". Many British IT professionals gained their early experiences on Acorns, which were often more technically advanced than commercially successful US hardware.