30 Sep
2005
30 Sep
'05
9:41 a.m.
Simon Fryer wrote:
Most schools had BBC Micros
or Micro Bees before digressing into Wintel territory. It is a shame
as I am lead to believe that the Acorn architecture and OS where well
engineered.
Acorn were always extremely good on the hardware front, and they
certainly got the OS / ROM routines right for the machines up until the
ARM-based hardware running RISCOS; after that though personally I feel
they lost the plot a little on the software side of it (even though the
hardware was still way better than what was going on in the PC world at
the time)