Raspberry Pi To Embrace RISC OS

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Normally I am the first to poo-poo all these embedded/SOC things trying to re-invent the world, but the education aspect is a very powerful one if it gets into the proper hands.  Sadly things in the computer education world are so geared towards "look towards the future" rather than making people respect the past and do as much as they can with fewer resources.

RiscOS I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot clown pole, but that's mainly due to the fact that I, like many guys in North America - just are not familiar with it, and find it inelegant.  Fiddling around with Linux on it, that's another story.

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Sorry Nicholas, I should have been more clear.  I've used RiscOS a number of times, but not for long enough to know it terrifically well.  Most of the Acorn systems I ever fiddled around with were essentially "collectors" pieces, as no one I knew over here ever really had one back in the day.

Functionally I found it to be a lot of fun, but not something I would enjoy using on any regular basis.  More of a personal taste issue, I just found the GUI ugly in all sorts of ungodly ways, lol.

We didn't see a heck of a lot of RiscOS/Acorn systems over here in North America, so I always saw the GUI visually offputting.