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acorn

Fruit of the oak tree, a nut growing in a shallow cup.

Acorn

UK computer manufacturer. In the early 1980s, Acorn produced a series of home microcomputers, including the Electron and the Atom. Its most successful computer, the BBC Microcomputer, was produced in conjunction with the BBC. Subsequent computers (the Master and the Archimedes) were less successful. Acorn was rescued by the Italian company Olivetti in 1985 and subsequently sold off its majority shareholding.

In 1999, Acorn was bought by US investment bank Morgan Stanley and broken up. Acorn's successful spin-off ARM continued to thrive, however.
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Well, one Sunday morning I was sitting out here in front of my cabin, with my cat, taking the sun, and looking at the blue hills, and listening to the leaves rustling so lonely in the trees, and thinking of the home away yonder in the states, that I hadn't heard from in thirteen years, when a bluejay lit on that house, with an acorn in his mouth, and says,
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AN OWL, in her wisdom, counseled the Birds that when the acorn first began to sprout, to pull it all up out of the ground and not allow it to grow.
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And so still the forest was you could have heard an acorn drop or a bird call from one end of it to the other.
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