[grr, list software hare] On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 01:43:47PM +0000, Matthew King wrote: [...] > For its time (and with the rose-tinted goggles of hindsight) I can find > very little to practically hate about Risc OS and its ancestors.
Compared to the Amiga, it lacked co-operative multitasking and backing store for overlaid windows, requiring the application to manage repaints. RiscOS seemed to be little more than a BBC B with some AMX software and mouse, and a rocket up its arse. AmigaOS much more resembled a "real" (i.e. Unix-like) OS under the hood.
