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Those RM machines were terrible. My secondary school was entirely Acorn and we'd had Amigas, Acorns and then Macs at home. I'd never really encountered Wintel
by mattkevan 5y ago
Those RM machines were terrible.
My secondary school was entirely Acorn and we'd had Amigas, Acorns and then Macs at home. I'd never really encountered Wintel until Sixth Form, where the college was full of Windows 3.1-era RMs.
Couldn't believe how primitive they were - compared to Workbench and RiscOS it was like stepping back into some terrible technological past. Don't think I used them willingly once in the whole time I was there. Still never used Windows much.
- micv 5y agoGoing from the Amiga or Archimedes to Windows 3.1 would have been painful. I'm glad I didn't get into the PC until Win 95 had showed up and got it to a semi-reasonable point.
- mavhc 5y agoIt's still painful trying to use any other GUI
- bencollier49 5y agoThose weren't even fully-compatible PCs though, were they? If I remember correctly, the really popular ones were 80186-based.
- hughrr 5y agoIndeed. They weren’t real PCs. Complete software and hardware lock in from RM.