Date   : Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:30:33 +0100
From   : "Adam" <adamh128@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Proton?

> By the way, I do have documents that reference a System 6 and System 7 in 
> the context of Acorn's earlier Systems 1 - 5. I'm guessing that System 6 
> was a provisional name for the Atom, and System 7 the BBC micro. But at 
> the time the Atom was well established, in theory what became the BBC B 
> hadn't even been thought of...
>
> So, was the System 7 the BBC B, or did Acorn have plans for a machine 
> prior to the beeb which never saw the light of day...


A very nice history of Acorn can be found here: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_computers although reading it is rather 
sad towards the end :-(