Not seen this mentioned anywhere else here. RISC-OS 5 is being open sourced.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/23/risc … os_open_source/
Haven't used or even seen a RISC OS based machine since I was in school but the OS is out so maybe I can relive some old memories.
RISC-y business
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Always good to see things open sourced. Helps others to learn, and gives an opportunity for new life. Also might help with e.g. porting drivers from Linux, to make hardware support better.
Now to port it so we can run RISC OS V on RISC-V.
Old precedes antique.
I still remember Arthur OS from ancient magazines..
Here's a cool promo video by Acorn - https://youtu.be/hrj-EEnsacQ
"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
//My video channel//
RiscOS 4 has been freely available and partially open source (and under fairly active development) for years now. RiscOS 5 was the subject of a weird licensing situation for a long time and therefore hasn't seen nearly as much active development. RiscOS 4 runs happily on all models of Raspberry Pi along with similar boards as a native OS, although it suffers from all of the problems that independent OSes run into, such as poor device support and applications which don't support modern standards i.e. javascript.
That being said, you can still drop into BBC Basic from the desktop.
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