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In the 80ies and 90ies, Acorn has been a british manufactorer
of home computing systems. Their first major product, the Acorn BBC, was
the British counterpart to Commodore's C64, and sold several million units,
mainly in Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
It's successor, the infamous Acorn Archimedes has probably
been the first home computer featuring a RISC processor (the ARM 2), and
a 32-bit architecture. However, Acorn never quite made the step to central
europe, or into America, so they hav remained largely unknown outside
Britain. The 90ies saw Acorn's final range of computers, the
RiscPC. Late in the 90ies, Acorn went down in quite
spectacular manner: just two weeks before their new product, the Phoebe
should have been presented on the Acorn World, Acorn announced the end
of their production of desktop computers. Just one year later, Acorn
had ceased to exist.
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