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Yup, the Archimedes was the successor to the BBC Micro, made by Acorn Computers.
The successor to that was the RISC PC, which was incredibly awesome. You could plug other processors into it, so that it could basically have a PC inside it, running Windows, in a Window. A bit like virtual machines now, but in hardware.
I had a summer job testing it out for Acorn. It involved having to trial a whole load of software, including the game Doom, as a test of the Graphics capability. Happy days.