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Acorn Archimedes is a family of personal computers designed by Acorn Computers of Cambridge, England. The first models were introduced in , [1] and systems in the Archimedes family were sold until the mids. Claims of being the fastest micro in the world and running at 18 MIPS were also made during tests. Two of the first models—the A and A—were given the BBC branding, [4] with BBC Enterprises regarding the machines as "a continuing part of the original computer literacy project".

Dissatisfaction with the branding arrangement was voiced by competitor Research Machines and an industry group led by a Microsoft representative, the British Micro Federation, who advocated the use of "business standard" operating systems such as MS-DOS. Responding to claims that the BBC branding was "unethical" and "damaging", a BBC Enterprises representative claimed that, with regard to the BBC's ongoing computer literacy initiatives, bringing in "something totally new would be irresponsible".

The name "Acorn Archimedes" is commonly used to describe any of Acorn's contemporary designs based on the same architecture. Having introduced the BBC Micro in , Acorn had established itself as a major supplier to primary and secondary education in the United Kingdom.

With microprocessor and computing technology making considerable advances in the early s, microcomputer manufacturers were obliged to consider the evolution of their product lines to provide increasing capabilities and performance. Drawing on previous work by Xerox , Apple had launched the Lisa and Macintosh computers, and Digital Research had introduced its own GEM graphical user interface software.

Acorn's strategy ostensibly evolved to follow the lead of Torch Computers - the subject of an uncompleted acquisition by Acorn [12] - who had already combined BBC Micro hardware with second processors and modems to produce their Communicator product line [13] and derivatives. The demise of the Acorn Business Computer left Acorn purely with a range of 8-bit microcomputer products, leaving the company vulnerable to competitors introducing bit and bit machines.

The increasing dominance of MS-DOS in the business market and advocacy for the use of such software in the education sector left Acorn at risk of potential exclusion from its core market. Attitudes towards Acorn and its technological position changed somewhat in late as news of its RISC microprocessor development effort emerged, potentially encouraging Olivetti to continue its support for the company at "a critical stage" in its refinancing of Acorn. On the eve of the announcement of Acorn's bit ARM-based microcomputer products, prototypes designated A1 and A were demonstrated on the BBC television programme Micro Live exhibiting BASIC language performance ten times faster than a newly introduced based computer from perennial education sector rival Research Machines , with suggestions made that the machines would carry the BBC branding.

Revealingly, Acorn's managing director noted, "Over the past two years we've paid the price of having no bit micro. The first models were released in June , as the and series. Both models included the Arthur operating system later replaced by RISC OS as a paid-for upgrade , BBC BASIC programming language, and an emulator for Acorn's earlier BBC Micro , and were mounted in two-part cases with a small central unit, monitor on top, and a separate keyboard and three-button mouse the middle one used for pop-up context menus of the operating system.

All models featured eight-channel 8-bit stereo sound and were capable of displaying colours on screen. Three models were initially released with different amounts of memory, the A, A and A Speculation gathered pace about new machines in the Archimedes range in early , with commentators envisaging a low-cost, cut-down model with KB of RAM to replace the A in a fashion reminiscent of the Master Compact. Concurrently with these rumoured product development efforts, work had commenced on a successor to the Arthur operating system , initially named Arthur 2 but renamed to RISC OS 2 for launch.

Unlike the previous models, the A came in a single-part case similar to the BBC Micro , Amiga and Atari ST computers, with the keyboard and disc drive integrated into a base unit "slightly smaller than the Master ".

Acorn offered a monitor stand that attached to the machine, [51] this being bundled with Acorn's Learning Curve package, [52] and PRES announced a monitor plinth and external disc drive case. The new model sported only a single internal expansion slot , which was physically different from that of the earlier models, although electrically similar.

An external connector could interface to existing expansion cards, with an external case for such cards being recommended and anticipated at the machine's launch, [50] and one such solution subsequently being provided by PRES's expansion system.

The relative affordability of the A compared to the first Archimedes machines and the release of RISC OS helped to convince educational software producers of the viability of the platform. The appeal of the A to education may also have motivated the return of Microvitec to the Acorn market with the Cub monitor: a re-engineered version of the Cub monitor that was popular amongst institutional users of the original BBC Micro. The introduction of the A also saw Acorn regaining a presence in mainstream retail channels, with a deal with high street retailer Dixons to sell the computer at "business centre" outlets, [65] followed by agreements with the John Lewis and Alders chains.

The hardware design featured memory modules, each providing their own memory controller and 4 MB of RAM, and a processor module providing the ARM3 and a slot for a floating point accelerator FPA chip, the latter offering the possibility subsequently unrealised of processor upgrades.

The FPA, replacing Acorn's previous floating point podule, was scheduled to be available in With IBM-compatible PCs offering increasingly better graphical capabilities, they had not merely matched the capabilities of Acorn's machines, but in offering resolutions of x in 16 or colours and with bit palettes, they had surpassed them. The A along with the earlier A supported the SVGA resolution of x in 16 colours, although the observation that "Archimedes machines have simply not kept pace" arguably remained.

It was the first Archimedes to feature a high density capable floppy disc drive as standard. No colour version of the product was planned. A notable omission from the machine was a built-in pointing device , requiring users to navigate with the cursor keys or attach a conventional Acorn three-button mouse, such as the Logitech mouse bundled with the machine. No other provision for expansion was made beyond the fitting of the Econet card and a hard drive.

The A4 effectively fit an A into a portable case, having a motherboard "roughly half the size of a sheet of A4 paper", adding extra hardware for power management and driving the LCD, the latter employing an Acorn-designed controller chip using "time-domain dithering" to produce the different grey levels.

Just as the processor could be slowed down to save power, so the 12 MHz RAM could be slowed to 3 MHz, with various subsystems also being switched off as appropriate, and with power saving being activated after "more than a second or so" of user inactivity.

The A4's case itself was used by Olivetti and Triumph-Adler models, particularly the Triumph-Adler Walkstation which did integrate a built-in pointing device, this being described as an "all-but-unusable touchpad mouse-controller" by one reviewer.

Acorn foresaw educational establishments taking to the machine where existing models were needing to be moved around between classrooms or taken on field trips, [88] although review commentary noted that "the A4 is too expensive for schools to afford in large numbers" and that contemporary Apple and IBM PC-compatible models offered strong competition for business users.

Peripherals for the A4 were eventually produced, with Acorn providing the previously announced Econet card, and with Atomwide providing Ethernet and SCSI adapters utilising the bidirectional parallel port present on the A4 and also the A and later machines. Atomwide also offered the "Hi-Point" trackball peripheral modified to work as an Acorn-compatible mouse which attached to the side of the unit.

In , several new models were introduced to complement the A and to replace the low-end A series models - the A, A and A - thus starting a transition from a range of machines of different vintages that still included the A at the low end and the A at the high end to a range that purely featured more recently designed models including the A as the high-end offering and the A4 portable.

Some early units of the A did not actually utilise the ARM, instead having a "mezzanine" board carrying the four separate devices comprising the complete chipset, with this board plugged into the motherboard in place of the ARM An Acorn representative indicated that this solution was pursued to meet retailing deadlines, whereas an ARM representative denied that any "serious delays" had occurred in the development of the ARM, indicating that the mezzanine board had nevertheless been useful during the design process.

The A model was intended to be a home computing machine, featuring a TV modulator for use with traditional PAL -standard televisions, SCART televisions already being supported by all of these models [90] and standard 9-pin joystick ports, while the A targeted the primary and middle school educational markets, featuring an optional built-in 2.

Meanwhile, the A was aimed at the secondary education and office markets, offering a separate adjustable keyboard to comply with ergonomics regulations deemed applicable in these markets. Technically, the A was almost functionally identical to the A, only differing in the supported hard disk size 3. Despite the resemblance to the A, the A along with the other models only provided a single "mini-podule" expansion slot, just as the A did. The retail pricing of the A was notable as making it the cheapest of any Archimedes machine sold.

The pricing and bundles involving these machines was updated in late , introducing a new Action Pack in place of the Family Solution, featuring the game Zool plus Icon Technology's StartWrite word processor. At the time of these product revisions, the A had become absent from related promotional material, even material aimed at the educational purchaser, [] although it remained in Acorn's price list presumably for the interest of institutional purchasers. Acorn's marketing relationships with high street retailers were somewhat problematic.

While outlets such as the John Lewis Partnership proved to be successful marketing partners, electrical retailer Dixons seemingly made relatively little effort to sell Acorn machines despite promising "greater opportunities" in after earlier criticism. Persisting with the strategy that some purchasers might choose a product positioned between games consoles and traditional PC-compatibles, the distributor, ZCL, aimed to take advantage of the absence of Commodore during the Christmas season.

Production of the A and A ceased in , with remaining stocks to be sold during , due to their lack of conformance with newly introduced European Union electrical and electronics regulations. Reminiscent of the BBC Micro upon its release, the earliest Archimedes models were delivered with provisional versions of the Arthur operating system, [] for which upgrades were apparently issued free of charge, thus avoiding the controversy around early ROM upgrades for the BBC Micro.

Following on from the release of Arthur 1. An early competitor, Graphic Writer, was received more favourably but provided its own full-screen user interface. Neither were regarded as competitive with established products on other platforms. Alongside First Word Plus, the Logistix spreadsheet-based business planning package [] was also commissioned by Acorn from Grafox Limited as a port to the platform.

On the Archimedes, AutoSketch was reported to run at about five times the speed of a "standard PC-compatible machine". Although Acorn had restricted itself to supporting the use of its View word processor under BBC emulation on the Archimedes, [] View Professional - the final iteration of the View suite on Acorn's 8-bit computers - had been advertised as a future product in June for November availability.

Alongside this, plans were also made for the launch of a podule peripheral module hardware expansion providing its own processor, a disk controller and connector for a disk drive. The emulator was described as having "very few compatibility problems" and was reported by diagnostic utilities as providing an based system, but the performance of the emulated system was regarded as slow.

Acorn reportedly acknowledged this by indicating the imminent availability of "an co-processor". Commentators were disappointed with the incoherent user interface provided by the software platform, with "Logistix looking like a PC, First Word slavishly copying GEM" and " other 'user interfaces'" amongst the early offerings.

The result was the lack of a "personality" for the machine which risked becoming a system that would "never look as easy or as slick as the Mac". Reactions to the upgraded operating system were positive and even enthusiastic, describing RISC OS as giving software developers "the stable platform they have been waiting for" and "a viable alternative to the PC or Mac", also crediting Acorn for having improved on the original nine-month effort in developing Arthur in the following twelve months leading up to the unveiling of RISC OS.

New facilities in RISC OS included co-operative multitasking, a task manager to monitor tasks and memory, versatile file management, "solid" window manipulation "the whole window moves - not just the outline" , and adaptive rendering of bitmaps and colours, using dithering where necessary, depending on the nature of the selected screen mode. One of these, deferred until after the launch of RISC OS, was Acorn Desktop Publisher, a port of Timeworks Publisher , [] which introduced a significant improvement to the anti-aliased font capabilities through a new outline font manager, [] offering scalable fonts that were anti-aliased on screen but rendered at the appropriate resolution when printed, even on dot-matrix printers.

As part of an effort to grow the company's share of the home market, Acorn introduced a bundle called The Learning Curve, initially featuring the A, optional monitor and a set of applications First Word Plus, the PC Emulator, and Genesis. Providing the bundled applications and other resources in ROM saved an estimated KB of workspace, thus being beneficial to users of 1 MB machines. The printing system was also updated to support multiple printers at once, but in this first version of RISC OS 3 background printing was still not supported.

Edit gained improved formatting and searching support plus transparent BASIC program editing facilities. Notably, support for background printing was introduced. The limitations of RISC OS became steadily more apparent, particularly with the appearance of the Risc PC and the demands made on applications taking advantage of its improved hardware capabilities although merely highlighting issues that were always present , and when contrasted with the gradually evolving Windows and Macintosh System software, these competitors offering or promising new features and usability improvements over their predecessors.

Two fundamental deficiencies perceived with RISC OS were a lack of virtual memory support, this permitting larger volumes of data to be handled by using hard disc storage as "slow, auxiliary RAM" attempted by application-level solutions in certain cases [] , and the use of cooperative multitasking as opposed to preemptive multitasking to allow multiple applications to run at the same time, with the former relying on applications functioning correctly and considerately, and with the latter putting the system in control of allocating time to applications and thus preventing faulty or inconsiderate applications from hanging or dominating the system.

Problems with the storage management and filing systems were also identified. Filing system limitations were also increasingly archaic: 77 files per directory and character filenames, in contrast to more generous constraints imposed by the then-"imminent" Windows 95 and then-current Macintosh System 7 release. Although an update to the FileCore functionality was delivered in , initially to members of Acorn's enthusiast community, providing support for larger storage partitions raising the limit to GB , other improvements, such as those providing support for the use of longer filenames, were still only provided by third parties.

An ARM3 processor was considered essential for "a workable turn of speed", this giving performance comparable with a 4. Regarded as a "programming wonder", the PC Emulator was nevertheless regarded as being "too slow for intensive PC use". The software provided PC emulation outside the desktop environment, with considerable performance benefits claimed relative to Acorn's product.

Regarded as being "considerably faster than the Acorn emulator when displaying graphics", with a two-times speed improvement observed for various tested programs, the product was considered appropriate for gaming, albeit at lower than VGA resolution.

It was also unable to run Windows 3. Having considerably improved graphical capabilities compared to those provided with Acorn's 8-bit machines, a number of art packages were released for the Archimedes to exploit this particular area of opportunity, albeit rather cautiously at first. One of the first available packages, Clares' Artisan, supported image editing at the high resolution of x but only in the colour mode 12, despite the availability of the colour mode 15 as standard.

Favourably received as being "streets ahead" of art software on the BBC Micro, it was considered as barely the start of any real exploitation of the machine's potential. Typical of software of the era, only months after the launch of the machine, Artisan provided its own graphical interface and, continuing the tradition of BBC Micro software, took over the machine entirely even to the point of editing the machine configuration and restoring it upon exiting.

The program's user interface deficiencies were regarded as less forgivable with the availability of a common desktop interface that would have addressed such problems and made the program "easier to use and a more powerful program as a result".

Although regarded as powerful, the pricing was considered rather high from the perspective of those more familiar with the 8-bit software market, and the user interface was regarded as "only just bearable". Atelier, however, was able to multi-task, providing the ability to switch back to the desktop and find applications still running and accessible. Unlike other contemporary art programs, it also took advantage of the system's own anti-aliased fonts.

One unusual feature was the ability to wrap areas of the canvas around solid objects. It featured a multi-document, desktop-based interface with a range of elementary painting and drawing tools, also allowing images to be created in arbitrary sizes for any of the display modes, even permitting editing of images in display modes with different numbers of colours, albeit with limitations in the representation of image colours when the desktop mode had fewer colours available.

Along with its companion applications, Paint supported the system's anti-aliased fonts and printer driver framework, and by embracing the system's user interface conventions, images could be exported directly to applications such as Draw by dragging an image's file icon from the save dialogue directly to the target application.

Despite a trend of gradual adoption of desktop functionality, in , Arcol from ExpLAN offered a single-tasking, full-screen, colour editing experience using the lower resolution x mode 13, supporting only bitmap fonts.