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It's a shame the French government doesn't mandate OCaml for all their software projects. If the UK government had forced the public sector to use Acorn Archim
by gaius 9y ago
It's a shame the French government doesn't mandate OCaml for all their software projects.
If the UK government had forced the public sector to use Acorn Archimedes instead of crappy PCs we would be at least a decade ahead now, maybe two.
- comstock 9y agoNot sure... I was a massive Acorn fan. But looking back, I'm not sure how far ahead of MacOS RiscOS really was. It was an advance on MSDos/Windows of course... but that wasn't the best thing out there by any means. ARMs were (still are) nice processors, and have obviously lived on and done well.
- staofbur 9y agoI've been lurking here for a few months and this has motivated me to comment. As a former prolific RiscPC user, the hardware and software was rubbish at a technical level even if it worked well from an end user perspective. I would not want to run a browser or any thin client software on the platform. There is no memory protection or privilege separation. I watched a whole Econet deployment get wrecked by a virus once. They just binned it and got netware and windows NT in because it was less crazy in the end.