Cambridge, UK-based Acorn Computers Plc’s low-cost Acorn Risc Machine microprocessor is at the heart of a European Commission funded Esprit II project to develop a cheapo multifunction workstation conceptually similar to ICL Ltd’s One Per Desk. Called Multiworks, the project is led by Acorn’s 80% shareholder Ing C Olivetti SpA, and as well as ICL, […]
Cambridge, UK-based Acorn Computers Plc’s low-cost Acorn Risc Machine microprocessor is at the heart of a European Commission funded Esprit II project to develop a cheapo multifunction workstation conceptually similar to ICL Ltd’s One Per Desk. Called Multiworks, the project is led by Acorn’s 80% shareholder Ing C Olivetti SpA, and as well as ICL, participants include Bull SA, AEG AG, Philips NV and SGS-Thomson Microelectronics SA, implying that the last may become an alternate source to VLSI Technology Inc in the US and Sanyo Co in Japan. The project is to design a cheapo workstation to include screen, processor, a telephone, a modem, a facsimile facility machine and other telecommunications peripherals. Despite the fact that the effort is being funded by the European taxpayers, Acorn refused to say anything about it.
