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 Acorn System 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The System 2 keyboard design was later used as the case for the Acorn Atom
The System 2 was a home computer produced by Acorn Computers from 1980.
It was the successor to the Acorn System 1.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acorn_System_2   (82 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Aristotle
The Earth is the centre of the cosmic system; it is a spherical, stationary body, and around it revolve the spheres in which are fixed the planets.
It is a peculiarity of Aristotle's ethical system that he places the intellectual virtues above the moral, the theoretical above the practical, the contemplative above the active, the dianoetical above the ethical.
Suffice it to say that, taken as a system of knowledge, it is scientific rather than metaphysical; its starting-point is observation rather than intuition; and its aim, to find the ultimate cause of things rather than to determine the value (ethical or aesthetic) of things.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/01713a.htm   (5735 words)

  
 Find Acorn System Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Acorn Computer's first public offering, the Acorn Microcomputer (later known as the Acorn System 1).
Sorry, the term Acorn System 1 is not in the dictionary...
Four Eurocards and a backplane board have to be assembled for system 2, the components for each card are packed separately in plastic bags or on conducting foam.
www.acorn-internet.net /information/3/acorn-system.html   (460 words)

  
 Acorn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Acorn Computers Ltd. have been manufacturing computers and writing operating systems since 1978.
Acorn are a small (on the order of 250 employees) computer company based in Cambridge, England.
For several years now, Acorn's main products have been based around a RISC processor called the ARM (this used to stand for "Acorn RISC Machine", but since then the bit of Acorn that made the ARM has split off from the main company, and the "A" now stands for "Advanced").
fms.komkon.org /comp/sys/Acorn.html   (321 words)

  
 Acorn--Report on file system problem oct 5, 2000
Acorn file repairs complete, Acorn is up and operation with all functions available as of 5 a.m.
Dale's attempts to restart the system and remount the affected file system initially failed, since the file system did not come up clean and had to be repaired.
During a subsequent conversation we were advised that we could bring the system up with the older, unrepaired versions of the files and continue working until a solution could be found ("safe" copies of the files were made immediately prior to the repairs).
staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu /libtech/reports/filesysprob10_2.html   (2346 words)

  
 Acorn System 2 Technical Manual -- Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Acorn system 2 is a complete micro-computer available in kit form or fully assembled and tested.
The system may be furnished with professional connectors, front panels and a 19" case if desired.
Chapters 2, 3 and 4 of this manual need to be referred to only if the system is in kit form.
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk /~bjharris/acorn/manuals/Sys2TM/chapter1.html   (204 words)

  
 Acorn Computers Ltd. - Computing Reference - eLook.org
After the Acorn System 1, 2 and 3, Acorn launched the first commercial microcomputer - the ATOM in March 1980.
In April 1984 Acorn won the Queen's Award for Technology for the BBC Micro and in September 1985 Olivetti took a controlling interest in Acorn.
Their operating system, RISC OS was further developed by a consortium of suppliers.
www.elook.org /computing/acorn-computers-ltd..htm   (307 words)

  
 Acorn Systems - Maintenance and Support   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the event that Acorn Systems Maintenance Services lapses, was not originally procured at the time a Program was licensed or was originally procured for licenses with metrics not currently available on the Price List, a Reinstatement Fee shall be assessed upon the commencement of the Support Period for that Program.
Access to Acorn Systems Salesforce.com shall be governed by the Terms of Use of the Salesforce.com portal and is limited to Client's designated Technical Contacts.
Acorn Systems Telephone support is available Monday thru Friday (except Holidays) between 9am CST and 5pm CST.
www.acornsys.com /support/technicalsupport/maintenanceagree.html   (1255 words)

  
 Yet another computer museum - Acorn Atom
The system 3 in its minimum form is a system driving a single disk.
All the Acorn Eurocards are compatible with this configuration, allowing enourmous variations on a modular basis.
The system illustrated has the additional audio cassette interface, 32K bytes of RAM and serial and parallel interfaces using the versatile interface board.
www.xs4all.nl /~fjkraan/comp/atom/history   (730 words)

  
 ACORN Acceptable Use Policy
Authorized users are invited to access ACORN by modem or remote login via the Internet with personal or office computers, or through public access terminals throughout the Akron-Summit County Public Library system.
Authorized user on the ACORN system are those individuals who have completed the registration procedure and abide by the following user guidelines.
At the discretion of the ACORN System Administrator, this time limit may be reduced.
www.acorn.net /aup.html   (680 words)

  
 Acorn System 2 Chapter 3 - Electrical Assembly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Capacitors supplied with the Acorn cards are usually identified by a 3 digit number, the first two digits being the first two digits of the value and the third being the number of following zeros eg.
In system 2 three connections from IC 2 to the backplane are required in order to connect to the cassette interface.
A wire link is required from IC 6 pin 3 to pin B 14 of the connector for the Not High Tone signal.
homepage.ntlworld.com /kryten_droid/Acorn/system2/system2_ch3.htm   (1846 words)

  
 Acorn System 2 Chapter 5 - Peripheral Devices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
System 2 requires a 5 volt stabilised supply at a current rating of not less than 1.5 amps (2 amps with 8K of RAM).
If available a 5 volt 3 amp module may be fitted in the left of the rack using four module guides and a 32 way socket on the left of the backplane.
We recommend the use of a recorder with an input and output dedicated to external connection to an amplifier as opposed to the microphone and external loudspeaker connections on the cheaper recorders.
homepage.ntlworld.com /kryten_droid/Acorn/system2/system2_ch5.htm   (666 words)

  
 Full Acorn Machine List
Acorn System 5 - similar to the Systems 2,3 & 4 except that it had a 2 MHz 6502 and was the first Acorn machine to be supplied with DRAM rather than static RAM.
Acorn Atom - this was powered by a 6502 chip and had, by default, 2k of memory with total expansion limited at 12k.
Acorn Proton - prototype version of the BBC Model A. It was never released commercially under the Proton name and all prototypes became BBC prototypes when the BBC contract was won.
www.khantazi.org /Archives/MachineLst.html   (3884 words)

  
 AIM Systems in Routine Use
ACORN, a hybrid backward- chaining rule-based and Bayesian system, was built for use by senior nurses to assist in the management of these patients.
Decision-support (the system outcomes) is based on patho-physiological state, ventilation functions and patient data, and it covers different phases of ventilator therapy, namely start (intubation), ongoing (treatment phase) and weaning (extubation).
The system records the oral health status of each patient during the course of the initial dental examination, and to date, some 3,000 patient records are in the clinic's database.
www.coiera.com /ailist/list-main.html   (10783 words)

  
 Acorn System Remediation 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Note that we continue to be concerned about an unusually high number of drive failures in the system array and occasional spurious reports that an individual drive has failed but when tested shows that the drive is clean.
We currently envision such a system as providing webcat searching only during times when the full system is down (a fully redundant system being, probably, prohibitively expensive).
This system would be mirrored to the production system daily and so, when needed, would be up to 24 hours behind the production server.
staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu /libtech/reports/AcornSysRemedReport.html   (571 words)

  
 List of operating systems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
System V (a release of AT&T Unix, 'SVr4' was the 4th minor release)
OS/2 (Windows/MS-DOS compatible operating system developed originally at Microsoft and taken over by IBM; a considerable technical improvement on both early Windows and MS-DOS.
Operating systems that have only appeared in fiction.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_operating_systems   (882 words)

  
 Acorn Computers Ltd. from FOLDOC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Acorn was founded 5th December 1978, on a kitchen table in a back room.
With 1992 revenues of 48.2 million pounds, Acorn Computers is the premier supplier of information technology products to UK education and has been the leading provider of 32-bit RISC based personal computers since 1987.
Acorn works with industry partners, users and software developers to provide products for the education, consumer, publishing and international markets.
www.instantweb.com /foldoc/foldoc.cgi?Acorn+Computers   (337 words)

  
 Project ACORN : The ACORN System
During the development of the system, files such as the CGI scripts will be backed up nightly to another server to ensure that there are always back up copies available.
The system then inserts some more PostScript code into this new document that inserts a light grey username, timestamp and attribution on every page of the document that is printed.
The ACORN CGI script also records in the main Sybase database who requested to print the pages, which document was printed and when the job was submitted to the print system.
acorn.lboro.ac.uk /ACORN/acorn/acsysw.htm   (4462 words)

  
 Acorn System 3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The System 3 was a home computer produced by Acorn Computers from 1980.
It was the successor to the Acorn System 2.
This page was last modified 15:47, 5 November 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acorn_System_3   (56 words)

  
 Find Acorn Window System Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Acorn windows can be used in both a residential or commercial capacity.
System Acorn RiscPC Processor ARM 710 (40MHz) Memory 32Mb system memory, 1Mb VRAM Storage 215Mb and 24x...
Acorn was a computer and technology company based at Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
www.acorn-internet.net /information/3/acorn-window-system.html   (594 words)

  
 Comp.Sys.Acorn.FAQ part 3 of 4
Under RISC OS 3 DOS, and indeed with any other ImageFS filing system, discs are treated as one large file and ADFS applies write-behind buffering to nearly everything it does.
Whilst many Acorn computers are capable of running DOS or Windows operating systems via software or hardware emulation, it is only the DOS/Windows environment that is vulnerable to infection by these virusues.
If the email address is to a person rather than either an automated system or perhaps a group of people I have placed the name of the person in brackets after the email address description 4Mation Ltd :- sales@4mation.co.uk Information and Sales enquiries.
www.faqs.org /faqs/acorn/faq/part3   (5017 words)

  
 Acorn Econet Technical Manual - Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Also on the network one would expect some stations to be machines with extra facilities, say disk file storage and a hard copy printer, these would normally be Acorn system 3 or 4 computers.
The bus approach choosen for the Econet allows stations to communicate without involving a third party and the interface hardware is simple, it operates at high speed and the total length of cable required is minimised.
This manual describes the hardware required to implement the Econet, a Eurocard for the Acorn System 3 or 4 computers and a specially engineered circuit card for the Acorn ATOM personal computer.
homepage.ntlworld.com /kryten_droid/Acorn/econet_intro.htm   (373 words)

  
 ScienceDaily -- Browse Topics: Computers/Systems/Acorn/System_1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
System Drastically Cuts Down Botulism Detection Time (September 12, 2005) — One of the most lethal substances in the world — botulism — can be detected using special systems in about 20—25 minutes.
CAD System Makes Breast MRI More Effective, Efficient (May 19, 2005) — A computer-aided detection (CAD) system is helping radiologists to more quickly and accurately determine the sizes and locations of cancers found on breast MRI -- information that could change patients' treatment, a new study shows.
Cooling System Could Aid Emergency Personnel In High-heat Heat Conditions (February 10, 2005) — Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are working on an insulation system that firefighters and other emergency personnel can wear to provide cool insulation when they are working in very hot conditions.
www.sciencedaily.com /directory/Computers/Systems/Acorn/System_1   (651 words)

  
 Acorn Econet Technical Manual - Eurocard Software   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The software to required to drive network communications consists of a 4K machine code program, this normally resides in a system at address A000 (hex).
For an Acorn system 2, 3 or 4 the software may be supplied in EPROM or on some other media.
If supplied in EPROM the IC should be fitted in a memory card of issue 3 or later and enabled at A000 (hex).
homepage.ntlworld.com /kryten_droid/Acorn/system2/200_024_software.htm   (114 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Motorola 6809 Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The 6809E was used in the TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo), Acorn System 2, 3 and 4 computers and in the CoCo's UK clones, the Welsh-made Dragon 32/64 home computers.
Software development company Microware developed the original OS-9 operating system (not to be confused with MacOS 9) for the 6809, later porting it to the 68000 series of microprocessors.
The Hitachi 6309 was an enhanced version of the 6809 with extra registers and additional instructions, including block move, additional multiply instructions, and hardware-implemented division.
www.ipedia.com /motorola_6809.html   (753 words)

  
 Acorn Segmentation System Customer Profile - Bamberg-Handley, Inc.
ACORN, acronym for A Classification Of Residential Neighborhoods, is the first lifestyle segmentation system using multivariate analysis to accurately predict customer lifestyle and behaviors.
ACORN is a neighborhood segmentation analysis which allows you to understand markets and enables profit from them.
It is probably the most respected lifestyle clustering system in English-speaking countries.
www.bhimarketing.com /acorn_summary.htm   (2644 words)

  
 Acorn System 4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The System 4 was a home computer produced by Acorn Computers.
It was the successor to the Acorn System 3.
This page was last modified 14:21, 4 July 2005.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acorn_System_4   (54 words)

  
 The Acorn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Without the foundation of a robust system, each vertical disease control programme is not only wasteful of resources – both personnel and funds, but also neglectful of major diseases not on the vertical list.
An efficient and effective public health system must define clearly the functions of the central, state and local governments, and must be led by public health professionals.
Apart from expanding intellectual discourse and keeping the media on its toes, The Acorn remains primarily an effort to educate an opinionated mind.
opinion.paifamily.com   (3942 words)

  
 Acorn System 2 Technical Manual -- Electrical Assembly
Acorn System 2 Technical Manual -- Electrical Assembly
The ROM IC marked COS (Cassette Operating System) can now be fitted in I.C. In system 2 three connections from I.C. 2 to the backplane are required in order to connect to the cassette interface.
IC's 1 and 2 are not required in System 2.
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk /~bjharris/acorn/manuals/Sys2TM/chapter3.html   (1860 words)

  
 Find Acorn Electron Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
To address this problem, Acorn introduced a cut-down version of the Model B. This machine was the Acorn Electron.
The Electron was developed by Acorn during 1983, with the aim of...
The Acorn Electron was a budget version of the BBC Micro computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd...
www.acorn-internet.net /information/1/acorn-electron.html   (507 words)

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