When Larry Ellison of Oracle Corp planned to capture a new market of less complicated computing machines for (primarily) the Internet, he turned to Acorn to develop the so-called "thin client" hardware. Thus the Network Computer was born.
The machine was based on Acorn's A7000 motherboard with its ARM7500 computer-on-a-chip main processor, though later a StrongARM N|C was produced, the conNCord:
Many other companies either produced their own N|Cs, licensed from Acorn, or marketed rebadged versions of Acorn's own designs.
Unfortunately, less than two years down the road, Ellison and Oracle pulled away from Acorn and the N|C market headed off in a different direction and it has all gone very quiet. This move helped to kill off Acorn, who had put a huge chunk of their resources into the project and had expected to continue this line of work for many more years.
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