Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England in 1978 by Hermann Hauser, Chris Curry and Andy Hopper. The company produced a number of computers during the 1980
A collection of Acorn 8-bit computers including the Master, Master Compact, Electron, BBC Micro and Atom
The Acorn System 1, upper board; this one was shipped on 9 April 1979.
The BBC micro released by Acorn in 1981
Arm Holdings plc is a British semiconductor and software design company headquartered in Cambridge, England, whose primary business is the design of central processing unit cores that implement the AR
Acorn Computers
…for it. The architecture part of the business was spun-off as Advanced RISC Machines under a joint venture with Apple and VLSI in 1990, now known as Arm Holdings, which is dominant in the mobile phone and personal digital assistant (PDA) microprocessor market today. Acorn in the 1990s released the Risc PC line…
Arm offices in Cambridge, England
An ARM processor in a Hewlett-Packard PSC-1315 printer, produced for HP by STMicroelectronics