These contacts have been put together by me as a collection of URLs which I access as a result
of the computer systems I use most frequently. These sites contain information on new products and
upgrades. As you can see there is a strong bias in favour of Acorn related sites for some strange
reason ;-)
This is the main server for the Acorn Computer group and it provides links to the many associated
members including, ART, Online Media, ARM and Xemplar etc. Acorn produces ARM RISC based computers
running the RISC OS operating system. Recently they ave become heavily involved with the future of
networking computer developments. Acorn have been producing and selling RISC based computers since
1987 which is a little bit longer than some other well known companies which have recentlymade
loud noises about RISC technology!
The Acorn Cybervillage is a collection of resources and stores devoted primarily to Acorn computers.
ANT are a company which specialise in networking hardware and software for the Acorn RISC OS
computers. They produce ethernet cards, and the Internet suite which included the Fresco WWW
browser. This server also has links to ATOMWIDE and Aleph-1 which is not so suprising when you
look at the personnel associated with the three companies.
Apple produce computers which in my opinion must be aimed at single tasking users ;-) Although
they have many good features I can't get used to only having a single button mouse, the need to use
the task switcher to change between tasks and the lack of fully compliant drag and drop filer operations
for most software applications. Unfortunately many of my colleagues only seem to know how to use Macs
so I have to use them occassionaly as well :-(
Archive, a computer magazine by Acorn enthusiasts and for enthusiasts, published by Peter Beverley
of Norwich Computer Services.
The ARM club is a group of enthusiasts dedicated to programming ARM RISC based computers.
Computer Concepts have been responsible for a number of key packages on the Acorn RISC OS computer
including Impression Publisher, ArtWorks and the TurboDrivers. These days they seem to be concentrating
on Windows based software such as CorelXara through their sister company Xara Ltd. However it seems
likely that they will be continuing to bring their software up to date for the new StrongARM RISC based
RISC OS computers.
David Pilling produces a number of good value for money packages such as SparkFS and ArcFAX.
Iota produce several software pacakages for RISC OS including the DataPower database.
John has written several good RISC OS graphics utilities such as !Translator and !Creator
I run Microsoft Windows on my !486 coprocessor so this is a link to Microsoft in case I need to download
some software etc. Out of choice I prefer to use RISC OS but sometimes I need to resort to bits of software
which are not available.
For information of the Quanta and CHARMm molecular modelling software which I use on my Silicon Graphics
Iris Indigo.
There is much discussion about the future of computing and upon what hardware and software systems it
will be based. This is a news service which covers networked computing developments.
Andrew Rawnsley of R-Comp wrote the HTMLedit package for RISC OS now at
version 3 which I use to keep these pages up to date.
The home of Silicon Surf and many other Silicon Graphics resources for use with the Iris Indigo system
which I use for my molecular modelling.
An academic server from Silicon Graphics for use by .ac.uk domains
Spacetech market the PhotoDesk2 package for RISC OS which I use for most of my image processing.
Stuart Brodie has written an excellent freeware WWW browser for RISC OS which I used up until purchasing ANTs
Internet Suite and Fresco browser.
The sister company of Computer Concepts set up to sell products like CorelXara into the Windows market.
Xemplar is the new company set up by Apple and Acorn to market their products into UK primary and secondary
education.
This page is from 
Mike Clark.
"An antibody engineer who also enjoys the mountains."
mrc7@cam.ac.uk
Mike's home-page
11th June 1997