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[Article author here] > You mean the Archimedes GUI on top of the BSD kernel? No. (Although that sounds fun, I never heard of such a thing.) RISC/ix was Aco
by lproven 3y ago
[Article author here]
> You mean the Archimedes GUI on top of the BSD kernel?
No. (Although that sounds fun, I never heard of such a thing.)
RISC/ix was Acorn's ARM UNIX. It had nothing of the Acorn GUI -- it was fairly standard X11, I think with Motif or something Motif-like.
Acorn did add some Acornish tweaks to it, including its text editing and its memory allocation, but it looked and ran much like any other late-1980s UNIX, as far as I now. I have never got to try it myself, sadly.
- rbanffy 3y agoI still think it’d be fun to bring it back to life. I don’t think there are many copies still usable and it was picky about hardware - it wouldn’t run on more modern Acorn boxes.
- lproven 3y agoRISC/ix? It was based on BSD 4.3. The efforts went into BSD 4.4 and that went into NetBSD and NetBSD 1.2 incorporated Acorn's ARM port. https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.acorn/c/G19nI9eac-o/m/qJhAOaV4-u0J https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.acorn/c/G19nI9eac-o/m/q... https://www.netbsd.org/changes/changes-1.2.html#port-arm32 https://www.netbsd.org/changes/changes-1.2.html#port-arm32 I'd say that the bits that matter mostly survived and still do.
- rbanffy 3y agoFor me, the desktop apps are vitally important to rebuild the experience.