The story of why A/UX existed is simple but also strangely sad, IMHO ( Read more... )

Acorn pulled out of making desktop computers in 1998, when it cancelled the Risc PC 2, the Acorn Phoebe.

The machine was complete, but the software wasn't. It was finished and released as RISC OS 4, an upgrade for existing Acorn machines, by RISC OS Ltdby that era, ARM had lost the desktop performance battle. If Acorn had switched to laptops by ( Read more... )