Lachlant1984 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I used a BBC micro at school back in the early 90's, but I've never used one of these, at least, I haven't had any real experience with them. Those machines would have been incredible for their time, but the graphics look very dated now, the desktop looks so old fashoned now.

AltMarc (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I owned an A3000 & a RiscPC outside of UK.Writing assembler was a dream on these.Also RiscOS was wonderfull, drag & drop fully integreted, even later OS never reached this interoperability.I was really angry when Intel bought DEC, no one understood the main reason: the StrongARM (SA110 &SA1100) wich evolved (Intel took 10 years to make it run 2x faster. LOL) to the Xscale.

benward10 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Wow that takes me back. I had an Archimedes 310m

TomPico12321 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Hmm that depends on how you define 'doing well'. It does have a small user base these days, but software is still being written/developed for it. For most purposes, it is still a viable alternative to the 'bigger' OSs, and in my opinion vastly superior (I'm currently running Virtual RISC PC under Mac OS X). There is actually a group called RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) who are publishing the source code in batches. There are still some keen users out there (myself included), so I'm still optimistic :)

matt9741399 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I'm aware of that. But is it doing well compared to other operating systems out there? In my opinion RISC OS is in serious need of being opened up (i.e. open source), but even if that were to happen, I fear it is too late.

TomPico12321 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Actually, RISC OS is still in development and is better than ever before :)

TomPico12321 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

"Still RISC OS looked cool esp the nearly instant boot too bad it never caught on outside the UK". Hey, it's not too late yet - RISC OS is still in development after all ;).

Membrane556 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The ARM processor still lives on and is one of the most widely used embedded processors.Smart phones as we know them might not have even been possible with out the ARM processor because just about everything else just uses too much power per MIP.An X86 based smart phone would have really bad battery life and would likely be prone to over heating and exploding.Still RISC OS looked cool esp the nearly instant boot too bad it never caught on outside the UK.

georeff23 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

THIS IS ARCHIMEDES... what the fluff happened to the future?!

regregex (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The Arthur desktop... what an angry fruit salad! At the time the Arc's capabilities were stunning, but it couldn't win out against the PC software base.