I was a huge Archimedes fan and still have an A310, an A5000, a RiscPC and a RasPi running RISC OS.

But no, I have to disagree. RISC OS was a hastily-done rescue effort after Acorn PARC failed to make ARX work well enough. I helped to arrange this talk by the project lead a few years ago.

RISC OS is a lovely little OS and a joy to use, but it's not ( Read more... )

I am told it's lovely to use. Sadly, it only runs on obscure PowerPC-based kit that costs a couple of thousand pounds and can be out-performed by
a £300 PC.

AmigaOS's owners -- Hyperion, I believe -- chose the wrong platform ( Read more... )