The successors of the old Acorns are now refered to as
Risc OS machines and are alive and well and running a heck of a lot better than anything
Microsoft churns out (those who disagree without seeing a modern
Risc Machine look up
FUD). The latest model, the
Iyonix runs
Risc OS 5 blindingly fast, instantly boots the
OS from
ROM and is almost silent.
Fans of the older Acorns can get a wave of nostalgia by trying out either the freeware Redsquirrel emulator (Ros 3.1 for Windows) or the comercial VirtualAcorn which emulates an A5000, good enough to run a few of your favorate games of yore on a 500Mhz PC. See www.red-squirrel.org