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Decades of innovation? Er, what? RISC OS has barely changed (if it has at all) in the last 30 years.

It's about as far from innovative as you can get these days (not that that's a bad thing - it's a retro/hobby platform after all!).

Have we not run out of these cringeworthy nonsense posts yet?

04.08.2025 15:49 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A screenshot of RISC OS 3.1 running ArcWeb, a web browser from the mid-1990s showing the Wikipedia page for RISC OS displayed using FrogFind.

Today's fun fact: Browsing the web on an Archimedes (real hardware, not emulated) with ArcWeb is very much still possible!

(Bonus hat-tip to @actionretro.bsky.social for creating FrogFind to make pages usable on old systems!)

27.07.2025 20:03 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

But what would be the point in learning all these things in RISC OS then going out into the real world, where RISC OS is nowhere to be seen?

Surely it makes _much_ more sense to learn in the platforms you're actually going to use and leave RISC OS as the retro curiosity it is?

27.07.2025 19:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bart Simpson repeatedly writing "I do not need another Raspberry Pi" on a blackboard in a classroom.

28.09.2023 07:16 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A screen capture of two London double-decker busses on a race circuit in 1982. One bus has an Acorn Computer advertising board on the side.

London double-decker bus racing in 1982. Sponsored by Acorn Computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SlO5_ykips

(Hat-tip to @tomscott.com's newsletter for the link)

07.08.2023 15:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The RISC OS 3 splash screen reading "RISC OS 3, Copyright Acorn Computers Ltd, 1992. Initialising..."

25.07.2023 11:13 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0