If Acorn Computers existed today?

They’d gone 64-bit decades ago after keeping The ARM Acorn Computers PLC.

Like they went 32-bit?

The reason for establishing ARM Ltd was, as I recall, a wish from Apple to use the ARM CPU in their total market-flop “Newton”. So by rights ARM should be owned by Acorn PLC who held some 47% of the ARM Ltd. stock. For which they were killed by greedy stock holders. And a most inventive Team with it. I still grit my teeth over that affair.

Pretty sure if Acorn Computers still existed, they would have moved on from RISC OS based computers long ago.

Look at Microsofts efforts with Windows 10 Mobile, finally got something right, but way too late and with too little real desire to invest properly, so it died off.

The loss of Acorn was bad enough. The UK Gov then allowing ARM to be sold off overseas, etc, was a triumph of spivdom over national interest.

The loss of Acorn was bad enough. The UK Gov then allowing ARM to be sold off overseas, etc, was a triumph of spivdom over national interest.

Pretty much a description of UK politics for the last fourteen years or so.

But it was important to show that brush was “open for business” after so recently chosen to shoot itself in both feet.
And having something sold off to foreigners? It’s practically Tory policy so they’d not mind… until years later when it was far too late.

I was recently in a discussion that reminded me that the UK was at the forefront of passenger jet travel, too.