RISC OS: 35-year-old original Arm operating system is alive and well

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 22, 2022 1:45 PM EDT
The Register; By Liam Proven
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RISC OS, the operating system of the original Arm computer, the Acorn Archimedes, is still very much alive – and doing relatively well for its age. In June 1987, Acorn launched the Archimedes A305 and A310, starting at £800 ($982) and running a new operating system called Arthur. At the time, it was a radical and very fast computer. In his review [PDF] for Personal Computer World, Dick Pountain memorably said: "It loads huge programs with a faint burping noise, in the time it takes to blink an eye."

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