Don't let the RISC-V people hear you say that... (View Post)

Back in the 1980s, Acorn had a problem when a Master 128 computer spontaneously combusted in a hospital (*). The problem was traced to the rechargeable CMOS battery inside it, but no-one could work o… (View Post)

No, I haven't. I prefer not to see such videos if I can avoid them. I saw a piccie of a Ukrainian soldier earlier who had been killed with a sword. I wish I hadn't; one of the problems with… (View Post)

RISC OS as used by the Archimedes (not Arthur, the original 1987 stopgap OS introduced when the US team failed us...) was a great OS, with some usability features that are still not common in many ot… (View Post)

Perhaps. Acorn were not brilliant wrt patents IMV, even before my time. It wasn't in the culture to create patents, compared to (say) Qualcomm or Apple. We just liked inventing cool stuff. Briti… (View Post)