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A few errors (corrections sent) but worth a read. It was the first computer shipped containing an ARM, the ARM 2. Ignore the crummy looking screenshots of Arthu
by ralph 14y ago
A few errors (corrections sent) but worth a read. It was the first computer shipped containing an ARM, the ARM 2. Ignore the crummy looking screenshots of Arthur; the WIMP was usable in Arthur for single-tasked applications but a very-nice co-operative multi-tasking desktop came with RISC OS 2.0.
It had features I still miss today, e.g. drag a scrollbar thumb with Adjust (X's Button3) instead of Select (B1) and you were panning that scrollbar and its partner in the other axis. Adjust often did similar to Select but with a tweak, e.g. the pop-up context menu with Menu (B2) could have an item selected with Select and would disappear but use Adjust and the menu, possibly several deep, remained opened. How often today do you have to re-navigate to a nearby place to select a second item? Select on a scrollbar's up arrow scrolls up, Adjust down; no need to move to the other end of the bar. Same goes with paging by clicking to the side of the thumb.
- fidotron 14y agoI always thought the special thing was the way file saving was done, especially if you had something like ArtWorks and Impression up at once and wanted to save between them. Definitely miss mine - and it still amuses me how things it handled so easily like having a common vector file format or decent anti aliased text took so long for the rest of the world to get near. Zarch/Lander was impressive, but seeing Sibelius running for time was astounding.
- ralph 14y agoThe drag-and-drop of the file icons with the sender not needing to know whether it was going to another running program or a filing system? Yes, that was nice. You know of the ROX Desktop? RISC OS on X. http://roscidus.com/desktop/ http://roscidus.com/desktop/