Linked by Chris Wraight on Mon 11th Sep 2006 17:45 UTC
Being a RISC OS user is an odd experience. It's normally baffling to non-believers why so many (mostly British) computer users persist with the eccentric beast. It's easy to list reasons why no self-respecting geek would trouble with it: many old or under-developed applications, poor streaming media support, lack of compatibility with key standards and technologies, limited hardware support, and there are many more. For most, RISC OS is a thing of the past, a curio, a once-promising minority OS trampled on by the juggernauts of Windows, MacOS and Linux.
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2005-11-11
Sounds like some interesting GUI ideas. It seems a little strange at first to only have a right click menu, but it does make sense. Apple's menus are touted for being easier to hit, being on a screen edge. Of course, the corners would be easier to hit than the edges, and there is one spot easier to hit than even those: wherever the cursor happens to be. Sounds like RiscOS did a good job harnessing that. (OT: the ease of hitting that spot always made me wonder why Macs did without a a right click enabled mouse by default for so long).
Seeing the features it had and why people clung/cling to it still, it almost seems cheap for the new Acorn to use that name.