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Thanks to Castle's mysterious one big customer it has survived into its fourth decade. I’d previously missed this piece of lore. Anyone got any more info on it

Thanks to Castle's mysterious one big customer it has survived into its fourth decade. I’d previously missed this piece of lore. Anyone got any more info on it? I’m trying to picture what critical system built on RISC OS would have required ongoing maintenance and am coming up blank.

rbirkby 6y ago
Got to wonder whether it’s something like ncipher/Thales due to the van someren/aleph1 connection.
ajb 6y ago
Don't know, but there was a mysterious entity that nearly bought the rump of Acorn IIRC to keep producing RiscPCs. Due to some fumble the deal fell through. I vaguely remember it being some kind of media-tech company. Probably the same mysterious entity.
bobince 6y ago
I'm guessing Eidos's Optima video editing system? That was the last of the major RISC OS users as I remember it.