The Acorn Electron is a budget version of the BBC Micro educational / home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd.

If Acorn had thought to include this small modification in the original Electron design it is likely the machine would have had a much greater impact as it would have nearly doubled the amount of motion possible in games and saved modes 0 – 3 ( including the only 16 colour mode ) from being nearly useless due to contended memory timings.

The pig farming simulation Acorn is the only complete, if modest, game

* Acorn flour is made from ground acorns and can be used as a substitute for wheat flour.

BBC BASIC is a programming language, developed in 1981 as a native programming language for the MOS Technology 6502 based Acorn BBC Micro home / personal computer, mainly by Sophie Wilson.

Acorn is sometimes referred to as the " British Apple " and has been compared to Fairchild Semiconductor for being a catalyst for start-ups.

ARM ( formerly Advanced RISC Machine and Acorn RISC Machine ) is a reduced instruction set computer ( RISC ) instruction set architecture ( ISA ) developed by British company ARM Holdings.

The name is commonly used to describe any of Acorn's contemporary designs based on the same architecture, even where Acorn did not include Archimedes in the official name.

" The award is $ 250 ( since raised to $ 500 ) and a medallion, modelled after the one given to Milton Acorn.

" Canadian poet, Milton Acorn, is remembered with feeling and eloquence in this tribute that takes the form of a wake.

' Evoked here is the unique mixture of intense emotion, wit and radical politics that identified Acorn as a man and a poet.

* Acorn Buttress, a small buttress just below Twin Buttress, which is a popular base-camp location.

Louisa is also home to the Acorn Community, a rural, cooperative, income sharing community on about 80 acres, founded in 1993 by one of the founding member of Twin Oaks, Kat Kincade.

The reunion special is also available on DVD now, distributed by Acorn Media UK.

Four Oaks is the home of the Acorn Festival.

The DVD of this series is available now, distributed by Acorn Media UK.

The Acorn Theatre is a 200 seat performing arts venue in Worksop town centre, providing a full programme of professional and amateur live theatre and folk music.

Most famously the sapsuckers ( genus Sphyrapicus ) feed in this fashion, but the technique is not restricted to these and others such as the Acorn Woodpecker and White-headed Woodpecker also feed in this way.

Acorn Computers CEO, Stan Boland said " There is not a big enough market for the PC ( Risc PC 2 ), which is largely for home use and games.

For example, in the Avon Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, there is a period of each year when Banksia prionotes ( Acorn Banksia ) is the sole source of nectar for honeyeaters, which play an important role in pollination of numerous plant species.

Elite is a seminal space trading video game, originally published by Acornsoft in 1984 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers.

Computers ( and computors ), models of computation: A computer ( or human " computor ") is a restricted type of machine, a " discrete deterministic mechanical device " that blindly follows its instructions.

The name Capcom is an abbreviation of " Capsule Computers ", a term coined by the company to describe the arcade machines it solely manufactured in its early years, designed to set themselves apart from personal computers that were becoming widespread at that time.

A single class-B element is rarely found in practice, though it has been used for driving the loudspeaker in the early IBM Personal Computers with beeps, and it can be used in RF power amplifier where the distortion levels are less important.

It is also affiliated with 4 Gödel Prize winners, 4 Knuth Prize recipients, 10 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award winners, and about 15 Grace Murray Hopper Award winners for their work in the foundations of computer science.

A " Broader Term " ( BT ) or hyperonym is a more general term, e. g. “ Apparatus ” is a generalization of “ Computers ”.

The International Symposium on Wearable Computers is the longest-running academic conference on the subject of wearable computers.

The free PP Compiler runs directly on the handheld computer, while PocketStudio is a Delphi-like IDE for Windows Computers that has a visual form designer and generates PRC files for being transferred to handhelds via HotSync.

Computers are a marvelous tool, and there is no reason to fear them.

Computers operate on a single Floating point number that is essentially constant from each input pixel.

— see, for instance, Step-Saver Data Systems, Inc. v. Wyse Technology, Vault Corp. v. Quaid Software Ltd .. Other courts have determined that the shrinkwrap license agreement is valid and enforceable: see ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg, Microsoft v. Harmony Computers, Novell v. Network Trade Center, and Ariz. Cartridge Remanufacturers Ass ' n v. Lexmark Int ' l, Inc. may have some bearing as well.

VME ( Virtual Machine Environment ) is a mainframe operating system developed by the UK company International Computers Limited ( ICL, now part of the Fujitsu group ).

* Most people own more than one P. C., though the concept of what a " computer " is has changed considerably: Computers are no longer limited in design to laptops or CPUs contained in a large box connected to a monitor.

A prominent computing scientist, E. W. Dijkstra, wrote in a paper that the coining of the term software engineer was not useful since it was an inappropriate analogy, " The existence of the mere term has been the base of a number of extremely shallow — and false — analogies, which just confuse the issue ... Computers are such exceptional gadgets that there is good reason to assume that most analogies with other disciplines are too shallow to be of any positive value, are even so shallow that they are only confusing.

Bracknell Forest is a base for high-tech industries and home to companies such as Panasonic, Fujitsu ( formerly ICL ) and Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Sharp Corporation and LSI Corporation.

* James Adams, The Next World War: Computers are the Weapons and the Front line is Everywhere, Simon and Schuster ( 1998 ) ( ISBN 0684834529 ).

* Mona Simpson's A Regular Guy ( 1996 ) is a fictionalized version of the life of her biological brother, Apple Computers co-founder Steve Jobs.

Kay Computers is now apparently also defunct ; its web site is parked and its location is occupied by a pet salon.

Computers may be impacted by volcanic ash, with their functionality and usability decreasing during ashfall, but it is unlikely they will completely fail.

Mindstorms is named after the book Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas by Seymour Papert.

( C ) 1983 Acorn Computers Ltd. Thanks are due to the following contributors to the development of the Electron ( among others too numerous to mention ):- Bob Austin, Astec, Harry Barman, Paul Bond, Allen Boothroyd, Ben Bridgewater, Cambridge, John Cox, Chris Curry, 6502 designers, Jeremy Dion, Tim Dobson, Joe Dunn, Ferranti, Steve Furber, David Gale, Andrew Gordon, Martyn Gilbert, Lawrence Hardwick, Hermann Hauser, John Herbert, Hitachi, Andy Hopper, Paul Jephcot, Brian Jones, Chris Jordan, Computer Laboratory, Tony Mann, Peter Miller, Trevor Morris, Steve Parsons, Robin Pain, Glyn Phillips, Brian Robertson, Peter Robinson, David Seal, Kim Spence-Jones, Graham Tebby, Jon Thackray, Topexpress, Chris Turner, Hugo Tyson, John Umney, Alex van Someren, Geoff Vincent, Adrian Warner, Robin Williamson, Roger Wilson.

* Acorn Business Computer, a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers

The BBC published BBC BASIC, developed for them by Acorn Computers Ltd, incorporating many extra structuring keywords and advanced floating-point operation features.

* The BBC Micro home computer from 1982, built for the BBC by Acorn Computers Ltd

* BBC Domesday Project, a partnership between Acorn Computers Ltd, Philips, Logica and the BBC with some funding from the European Commission's ESPRIT programme, to mark the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book, an 11th century census of England.

The TRS-80 Color Computer, IBM PCjr, MSX, and BBC Micro from Acorn Computers all contained a built-in relay for controlling an external tape recorder.

It was also used in a number of products including the Acorn Computers Risc PC and Eidos Optima video editing system.

Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978.

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Originally conceived by Acorn Computers for use in its personal computers, the first ARM-based products were the co-processor modules for the BBC Micro series of computers.

After achieving success with the BBC Micro computer, Acorn Computers Ltd considered how to move on from the relatively simple MOS Technology 6502 processor to address business markets like the one that would soon be dominated by the IBM PC, launched in 1981.

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* 1998 – Castle Technology acquire the rights to continue to market and produce the RiscPC during the breakup of Acorn Computers.