RISC OS is a wonderful bit of software. I've been
playing with it for
a while and have even converted some popular open source fonts to RISC
OS format. What really shocks me about RISC OS, despite the its fairly
primitive internals, just how well the UI stuff works and how stable
the system tends to be, even though I'm running an unsupported alpha
version in an unsupported alpha emulator... Also, it has by far the
best font rendering of any "classic" GUI. It has font rendering as
good as or better than any modern system and it had it way back in
1989! I'd love to get some classic hardware (Especially an A540 and a
RiscPC 700) but money is short and I'd have to pay for transatlatic
shipping, so emulation and Raspberry Pi have to serve to give me my
RISC OS fix for now.
I just downloaded it for my own Rpi. Always wanted a RISC OS box, but
Archies are hard to come by in the USA.
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