Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Acorn Network Computer" in English language version.
[...] one of the fastest set-top boxes today, one with a 233-MHz processor [...] new Concord network computer [...]
Acorn Computer Group announced the NC TV, Set-Top-Box NC, ExecPhone, and Office devices [...]
A scaled down version of RISC OS was licensed to Oracle to form its NCOS(TM).
In England, Acorn has contracted with D2D, a division of Fujitsu/ICL to manufacture the Acorn NC.
Acorn Group has decided to offer its Network Computer hardware production and reference designs at no cost to licensees of its information appliance operating system, RISC OS.
The StrongARM NC prototype [...]
today demonstrated a variety of network computing devices including the Acorn NC, the Office NC, the Set-top Box NC (STB NC), the ExecPhone NC, and the NC TV.
[Ellison's] proposed Network Computer needed things Acorn already possessed in spades: a cheap, powerful processor in the form of the ARM 7500; a compact ROM-based operating system, RISCOS; TV compatibility.
[Ellison's] proposed Network Computer needed things Acorn already possessed in spades: a cheap, powerful processor in the form of the ARM 7500; a compact ROM-based operating system, RISCOS; TV compatibility.
The trial will combine Acorn's NC technology with BT's communications network and will be centred around BT's laboratories in Martlesham, Suffolk. [...] "our aim with this trial is to prove the technology and services over a six month period, ending in March 1998 [...]"
