Was Acorn's RISC OS an under-appreciated pearl of OS design?

[liam_on_linux]

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

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[flavius_m]

Interesting peek at parallel universes.. (not parallel computer but... oh, sorry)

Also, thanks for the link to Neal Stephenson's piece, very very interesting.

Hope you and the growing family are all well and safe. Had some idea before all this started that I might see you again at Infest but that clearly won't happen. Hopefully next year, if the new demands on your life and your time alsow it :)

[liam_on_linux]

Thanks!

No, I'm afraid no festivals or anything this year. I currently plan to wait for a vaccine.

So far, we are all well and happy and healthy. Ada has started to crawl and explore the apartment, and continues to just get cuter and cuter. :-)

[flavius_m]

Yeah, I won't be going to any pubs or gigs any time soon. Worried about the two bad possibilities that await me in September: one, that the schools open and I have to mingle with a thousand pupils (x2, two schools) -and the other, than they don't open and the take up for music lessons will be very very low and I'll get practically no income from them. We of course will cross that bridge when we get to it...

That piece by Neal Stephenson is rather a bit rambling, isn't it. It is interesting but I do find that I disagree on quite a few fundamental points and that he speaks like a true zealot, even though he does have some valid points.