The Archimedes was a line of ARM-based personal computers by Acorn Computers, released in the late 80s and discontinued in the 90s as Macintosh and IBM PC-compatible machines ultimately dominated.

As we enter the Archimedes hall of fame, our attention should first be drawn by Zarch - a game written by Elite co-pilot David Braben, the future head Kinectimal tamer at Frontier.

Before the Archimedes, Acorn equipped existing machines with prototype ARM1 chips as second processors, simulating the Archimedes instruction set in a program written in BBC BASIC. The in-house ...

The Acorn Archimedes range of computers was moderately popular, especially in schools, around the time of the Atari ST and Amiga home computer reign. However these ARM powered computers were quite ...

Once part of educational computer supplier Acorn where it played ahead of its time, ARM used its first ARM1 chips as part of a BBC Micro-based development kit for the 32-bit Acorn Archimedes, the ...

Take the Acorn Archimedes, the home computer for which the first ARM processor was developed, and which has just turned 30.