Wow! I stand corrected. I was led to believe that Acorn went bust and sold to Psion. I thought it went Acorn Pocket Book 1, Acorn Pocket Book II, Psion 3.
Psion did the software bundled with the Sinclair 16K/48K ZX Spectrum that was bundled at launch. It also wrote the bundled apps for the Sinclair QL.
Then it did its own line of pocket computers: the Organizer, the unsuccessful MC solid-state laptops, which it then miniaturised into the very successful Series 3, 3A, 3C and 3MX.
Acorn licensed these and sold them with changed software in the ROM, with an schools/educational focus instead of PDA functions.
Psion followed on with the Psion 5, using Acorn's ARM processors and a whole new OS, EPOC32.
That evolved into Symbian and powered the 1st mass-market smartphones. It's now FOSS.
Acorn made it big because it designed the first mass-market RISC chip, the ARM.
Acorn spin-off Arm is alive and well and the Arm chips are the most widely-used CPUs in the world, with about 10x-100x as many sold every year as all x86 put together.
Psion did the software bundled with the Sinclair 16K/48K ZX Spectrum that was bundled at launch. It also wrote the bundled apps for the Sinclair QL.
Then it did its own line of pocket computers: the Organizer, the unsuccessful MC solid-state laptops, which it then miniaturised into the very successful Series 3, 3A, 3C and 3MX.
Acorn licensed these and sold them with changed software in the ROM, with an schools/educational focus instead of PDA functions.
Psion followed on with the Psion 5, using Acorn's ARM processors and a whole new OS, EPOC32.
That evolved into Symbian and powered the 1st mass-market smartphones. It's now FOSS.
Acorn made it big because it designed the first mass-market RISC chip, the ARM.
Acorn spin-off Arm is alive and well and the Arm chips are the most widely-used CPUs in the world, with about 10x-100x as many sold every year as all x86 put together.
Psion, sadly, is no more.