Abstract is: 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. Though the company was acquired and largely dismantled in early 1999, with various activities being dispersed amongst new and established companies, 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 activities established by Acorn lived on: technology developed by Arm, created by Acorn as a joint venture with Apple and VLSI in 1990, 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.
business | Q4830453 |
P11129 | C64-Wiki ID | Acorn |
P2088 | Crunchbase organization ID | acorn-computers-ltd |
P646 | Freebase ID | /m/0fl5g |
P227 | GND ID | 16214070-8 |
P12597 | museum-digital person ID | 184784 |
P856 | official website | http://www.acorncomputers.com/ |
P3417 | Quora topic ID | Acorn-Computers |
P214 | VIAF ID | 200297159 |
P576 | dissolved, abolished or demolished date | 2000-11-01 | |
P112 | founded by | Hermann Hauser | Q4803761 |
Christopher Curry | Q5112176 | ||
P355 | has subsidiary | Acornsoft | Q3604604 |
P159 | headquarters location | Cambridge | Q350 |
P571 | inception | 1978-12-01 | |
P452 | industry | personal computer hardware | Q7144664 |
P1830 | owner of | Acornsoft | Q3604604 |
P1056 | product or material produced or service provided | Acorn System 1 | Q2736931 |
P910 | topic's main category | Category:Acorn Computers | Q8833734 |
Q3604596 | Acorn A7000 |
Q2043357 | Acorn Atom |
Q4674545 | Acorn Business Computer |
Q4674551 | Acorn Communicator |
Q342163 | Acorn Electron |
Q4674557 | Acorn Network Computer |
Q4674559 | Acorn Online Media Set Top Box |
Q2736931 | Acorn System 1 |
Q4671049 | Acorn System 3 |
Q4671093 | Acorn System 4 |
Q4671139 | Acorn System 5 |
Q16082233 | BBC Master Compact |
Q749976 | BBC Micro |
Q5333324 | Econet |
Q1353312 | RiscPC |
Q7906981 | VIDC1 |
Q7906983 | VIDC20 |
Q16980 | ARM architecture |
Q281222 | ARX |
Q3604596 | Acorn A7000 |
Q41357 | Acorn Archimedes |
Q4674551 | Acorn Communicator |
Q3604597 | Acorn Eurocard systems |
Q4674556 | Acorn MOS |
Q4674557 | Acorn Network Computer |
Q2736931 | Acorn System 1 |
Q116443570 | Acorn System BASIC |
Q4792459 | Arm Image Format |
Q471172 | Arthur operating system |
Q749976 | BBC Micro |
Q5281381 | Disc Filing System |
Q5333324 | Econet |
Q5518617 | Galileo |
Q6738879 | MakeModes |
Q6953165 | NCOS |
Q7131535 | Panos |
Q3901578 | Phoebe |
Q1202514 | RISC OS |
Q4047860 | RISC iX |
Q1353312 | RiscPC |
Q3604604 | Acornsoft | owned by | P127 |
Q5358820 | Element 14 | follows | P155 |
Q4674549 | Acorn Computers | different from | P1889 |
Q1202514 | RISC OS | designed by | P287 |
Q8833734 | Category:Acorn Computers | category's main topic | P301 |
Q3604604 | Acornsoft | parent organization | P749 |
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