The amazing Acorn micro-kernel is an open-source operating system that runs for 8-bit Atmel ATR microprocessors at a micro level. Even with its size, it has several task layers that allow it to ...

Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge. silicon.com's Nick Heath talks to Hopper about the BBC Micro, ...

Acorn, the British computer company that dominated the market in the late '70s has been revived, once again. This time out, the outfit is pushing its own smartphone, the Acorn Micro Phone C5, which ...

When we think of 8-bit computers, it’s natural to start with home computers. That’s where they live on in the collective memory. But a Z80, a 6502, or similar was more likely to be found unseen in a ...

Today, historic UK computer brand Acorn announced a 40 th Anniversary release - the Acorn Micro Phone C5. Acorn's success in the public eye began with the BBC Micro in the 1980s, continued with the ...

Back in THE early 1980s, Acorn was virtually a byword for educational computers, its flat cream boxes as ubiquitous in the classroom as among Basic aficionados. Then along came cheap Intel PCs, Gates ...

Acorn is returning to technology more than 20 years after the iconic brand went out of business - but anyone looking forward to a new ARM-powered RiscOS-running PC will be sorely disappointed. Instead ...