[Gllug] Beagle Board

[John Edwards]

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).


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