[Gllug] Beagle Board

[Rich Walker]

John Edwards <john at cornerstonelinux.co.uk> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 04:27:44PM +0000, Peter Corlett wrote:
>> On 12 Jan 2009, at 15:43, Richard Jones wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:23:54PM +0000, Peter Corlett wrote:
>>>> I require an operating system
>>>> that doesn't suck, for example, which rules out anything Acorn ever
>>>> released with their ARM kit.
>>> That's fightin' talk ...
>> 
>> To a certain extent, it's a matter of taste, but Arthur and RiscOS  
>> certainly did have more than their fair share of boneheaded design  
>> decisions. Co-operative multitasking? What is this, the 1950s?
>
> RISC OS was release in the late 1980s. Both MacOS and Windows
> were using co-operative multitasking at that time (and for
> years afterwards).

And RISC OS did ship with the TaskWindow, which let you run CLI tools
with pre-emptive multitasking.

And, of course, it was a modular, upgradeable OS...

*looks mournfully at stack of RISC OS programming guides*



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