Re: Off Topic - BBC Micro Books

[sicklittlemonkey <nick.westgate@gmail.com>]

On Nov 25, 12:05 am, Eric Rucker <bhtoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> IIRC, 65Host was never in ROM, but it was on disk all along.

Ah yes, you're right, I had forgotten there were a few disks supplied.

> They did remedy that a year later with RISC OS 2

I had an A5000, so came in at RISC OS 3 and missed the problems you
mention. Sure it would have been better if the OS was pre-emptively
multitasked etc, but these things didn't bother me much at the time.
The Amiga had the edge in some areas, but the Archimedes managed to
compete for a few years there with its strong CPU performance and
various innovations, and many Amiga games were ported to it. Until as
Marcus said, the PC killed them all.

> Oh, and Apple did EVENTUALLY get that foresight... they managed two
> CPU architecture jumps, both of them being (relatively) seamless. But,
> I have other issues with Apple, so...

Yes ... eventually. ;-)

Cheers,
Nick.