Reply to thread I'm not sure what made RISC OS great anymore, a few killer apps from ComputerConcepts (now surpassed by Scribus, Xara etc.) but mostly the WIMP I guess, certainly not the stability of the OS or ease of programming desktop apps..... I dunno, I can't see much of a future for RISC OS on ARM hardware, or maybe even RISC OS as we know it (kernel, WindowManager etc). Maybe porting to x86 may save it - VRPCSE has been popular I guess, but native would be nicer than emulation. Perhaps just doing a ROX kind of thing and porting the Desktop to Linux may be a way to go, imagine the RISC OS desktop running on a stable OS - multitasking, memory protection, being able to use whatever peripherals you like, a huge library of applications available for free, current hardware..... ROX never seemed to catch on though. Thing is, if you make a Linux desktop or Windows emulator, you're just going to convert people to Linux/Windows in the long term, and they fire up ROX/VRPCSE less and less. simo on 6/10/06 12:15AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ] Please login before posting a comment. Use the form on the right to do so or create a free account.

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