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{{Operating-system-stub}} Category:Acorn Computers Category:Acorn operating systems

Chris's Acorns

Discussion at User talk:Xymmax

Article references

Misc

General journal/magazine refs

RPCEmu

BYTE

Potential articles for reference. Also need to check Drobe and research printed copies of Micro User, Acorn User, Archive, etc.

Note: Academic journals should be grouped together some time, for someone with access to a university library to look into!

PCW

Sibelius

Education

Photos

Spellings Computer Services

End of Acorn Workstations

  • "Interesting Times"
  • "Acorn: The Future"
  • "The Big Rescue Plan"
  • RISC User 11/10
  • "Acorn Ex Xemplar"

Xemplar

Element 14

  • RISC User 11/10
  • "Acorn launches Element 14 Ltd"

ARM

  • RISC User 11/7
  • "Acorn to sell its ARM stake"

ANT

Cogwheel

Acorn clones

  • RISC User 11/6
  • "Taking the MEDIcation"
  • RISC User 11/7
  • "Designs on the Medi"
  • "MicroDigital Meditations"

RISCOS Ltd

  • "RISC OS:The Future"

ROOL shared source initiative

Qercus

Castle

  • "King of the Castle"

A9

ARMini

NC

  • "The Making of the NC"
  • "MATRIX Multiplication"
  • RISC User 11/6
  • "The NC Examined"

Online Media

Cambridge Digital Interactive Television Trial

Oregan

Acorn (2006)

Vintage

TBA Software

Computer Concepts

GUI

Windows on ARM

(Elite - unrelated to RISC OS)


Raspberry Pi

Steve Furber

Andy Hopper

Olivetti Research Labs

Books

Relevant pages

Interesting external sites

Test


CTL

Castle Technology Ltd.
Company typePrivate
IndustryComputer software, Computer hardware
FoundedFramlingham, UK (June 4, 1993 (1993-06-04))
FounderJohn Ballance, Jack Lillingston, Peter Wild
Headquarters
Colchester
,
UK
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Jack Lillingston, Co-founder and Managing director
John Ballance, Co-founder and Chief technical officer
ProductsIyonix PC, Risc PC, RISC OS 5
Websitecastle-technology.co.uk
  • I think that Iyonix is a separate company, and therefore won't be listed as a subsidiary.
  • Also, we could do with including a replacement for this official image, as it's presumably not free. (There are also five photos on the current website, but I can't see the article becoming long enough (in the short- to medium-term) to warrant a photo for each machine.)
  • Include PNG of Iyonix logo.

RISC OS

Logos

While under Acorn's ownership, the identity of RISC OS was integral to that of Acorn itself.[1] Previously, RISC OS used the Acorn nut device as its representative symbol[1], but that trademark (or a derivative of it) had subsequently been registered by Aristide & Co Antiquaire De Marques.[citation needed] After Acorn's demise, there was a need to establish a specific visual identity by way of a new logo.[1]

RISCOS Ltd's RISC OS 4 already had its own logo, a 3D cube.[1] Therefore, a new logo was designed by Richard Hallas, a former editor of RISC User magazine.[citation needed] His design was created with the intention of satisfying all of the following conditions:

  • It should be graphically simple, but yet have a complex enough shape to be recognisable at a glance.
  • It should be simple enough to be usable purely as a shape in monochrome, but with a more attractive complementary colour version.
  • It should be visually interesting when viewed at a large size, but still recognisable even if used at extremely small sizes (such as in the corners of file icons).
  • It should be usable in isolation or in combination with other text, just as the Acorn Nut could appear either on its own or at the end of the word 'Acorn'; in which case it must form an appropriately balanced whole.
  • It should be a regular shape which can easily be used within other designs and which is not greatly affected by questions of angle or perspective.
  • In its colour form, it should make use of few colours in order to avoid over-complexity, have impact, and be capable of being printed with spot colours for limited-colour printing. Notably, there was a flat green version of the Acorn Nut as well as the nice, shaded 3D version.
  • Whilst the question of being an abstract design isn't a problem (lots of logos are abstract), it should preferably be a fairly even shape; not too tall or thin. The Acorn logo was taller than it was wide, but only by a little; the Apple logo is more or less square in terms of its bounding box; the Windows logo is a rotated rectangle with roughly 4:3 proportions. These are all harmonious, flexible shapes.
    — Richard Hallas, 'Rebranding RISC OS' article, on RISCOS Ltd's website[1]

Table of logo variants

Note: The full table may ultimately be migrated elsewhere during the process of moving this draft to WP:NS0. It's included here to see how it looks and hangs with the rest of the section/article.

Standard Graphical Graphical (spot colour)
3D (colour) File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel gen std 3d col preferred.svg File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel gen graph 3d col full.svg File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel gen graph 3d col spot.svg
2D (colour) File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel gen std 2d col.svg File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel gen graph 2d col full.svg File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel gen graph 2d col spot.svg
2D (monochrome) File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel gen std 2d.svg File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel gen graph 2d mono.svg File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel gen graph 2d mono.svg

Ref

Norcroft

Different referencing styles/advice

About template

Extraneous links testing.

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References

  1. ^ a b c d e Hallas, Richard (2001). "Rebranding RISC OS". RISCOS Ltd. Retrieved 2011-03-14. [...] which of course was wholly appropriate while Acorn itself was the sole producer of RISC OS-based systems. Cite error: The named reference "rebranding risc os" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
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