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Apart from RiscOS, Acorn also licensed UNIX for the A440 series, RISC iX. 'Selecting Motif, however, causes things to go from "dire" to "apocalyptic".' [0] Inc
by arexxbifs 6y ago
Apart from RiscOS, Acorn also licensed UNIX for the A440 series, RISC iX. 'Selecting Motif, however, causes things to go from "dire" to "apocalyptic".' [0]
Incidentally, the D. J. Braben from the demonstration programs in the end is of course David Braben, of Elite fame. [1]
[0] http://www.typewritten.org/Media/ http://www.typewritten.org/Media/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Braben https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Braben
- goatinaboat 6y agopart from RiscOS, Acorn also licensed UNIX for the A440 series Acorn also dabbled with a UNIX called PanOS, for the 16032 second processor for the Beeb.
- jlarcombe 6y agoPanos wasn't a Unix (and ran on the 32016 only). A real oddity! Written in Modula-2.
- mellosouls 6y agoAnd Raspberry Pi fame also - which has similar philosophy to the original BBC micro ecosystem that Archimedes emerged from.
- sys_64738 6y agoYou can run RISC OS on the RPi too. We've gone full circle!