John Cartmell wrote:
In article , Steve Firth
wrote:
FWIW, RISCOS was never at any leading edge it was a Johnny come Lately
that failed.

Look at the first RISC OS desktop and the Microsoft equivalent of the same
date. Then come back here and retract your comment! ;-)

Have a look at the Xerox Star, Lisa and Macintosh interfaces then come
back here and eat humble pie.

First consumer RISC computer,

No it wasn't.

first multimedia computer,

No, it wasn't.

fastest most efficient when released,

No,it wasn't.

fastest most efficient when RiscPC released, fastest
most efficient when StrongARM processor released for RiscPC.

Microsoft were always a million times better at marketing of course. ;-(

And there's one of your problems, you think that the only alternatives
were Acorn and Microsoft. Acorn couldn't design an interface even if
they read all of "Tog on Interface" which they clearly did not.

The best claim that can be made for RISCOS was that it was marginally
better than the BBC B. I can still recall the poor sods who used to come
to companies for interviews claiming to be "computer literate" because
they could use a Word Processor on a BBC B.