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		rbanffy on May 3, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is,... I still think it’d be fun to bring it back to life. I don’t think there are many copies still usable and it was picky about hardware - it wouldn’t run on more modern Acorn boxes.

lproven on May 3, 2024 [–]

RISC/ix?

It was based on BSD 4.3. The efforts went into BSD 4.4 and that went into NetBSD and NetBSD 1.2 incorporated Acorn's ARM port.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.acorn/c/G19nI9eac-o/m/q...

https://www.netbsd.org/changes/changes-1.2.html#port-arm32

I'd say that the bits that matter mostly survived and still do.

rbanffy on May 3, 2024 | [–]

For me, the desktop apps are vitally important to rebuild the experience.

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