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Remember that RISC OS as we know it today didn't appear until mid-1989, 2 years after the first Archimedes. During those first couple of years it was the BASIC
by sys_64738 6y ago
Remember that RISC OS as we know it today didn't appear until mid-1989, 2 years after the first Archimedes. During those first couple of years it was the BASIC written Arthur 1.20 that you got by typing '*desktop'. You swapped out the ROM chip for RISCOS 2.0 in 1989. FWIW, Arthur 2.0 was meant to be the proper name for RISCOS 2.0 but that was torpedoed by the movie Arthur 2 being released.
- mattkevan 6y agoHa, I remember doing that, and the RISCOS 2 to 3 upgrade a few years later. Very exciting, for a nine-year-old. Kept the old Arthur ROM chips for years afterwards as a sort of prize.