![]() In 1990 we also developed our own Postscript clone (ShowPage) which was the beginning of a line of productsīut despite having world beating technology, poor management doomed Acorn. We created a wide range of products for the Acorn Risc computers, including hardware products such as the LaserDirect, which was the world'sįirst sub £1000 600-dpi laser printer. That computer was simply the most advanced,įrom a hardware and software point of view, and we had to work on it. ![]() So once Acorn announced their first computer, it was off Atari, and back to developing Acorn software. It easily beat the rather poor 8086 16-bit processor that powered the IBM PC at the time. What they created was not only the first affordable 32-bit processor,īut the fastest chip around, by a large margin. ![]() Acorn wanted to find a 32-bit replacement and, for one reason and another, decided to develop their own brand new 32-bitĪrchitecture, that had the simplicity of the 6502, but was true 32-bit. The BBC Micro used the 6502 8-bit processor which was very simple, but veryįast (for the time). We knew about Acorn's RISC developments from the very beginning.
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