Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 6th Aug 2006 17:52 UTC, submitted by teigetje
One of the strengths of RISC OS is the ability for people to drag'n'drop objects around the desktop. It's usually hard to describe how well this works, but other operating systems are rapidly catching up. While RISC OS still arguably has the edge, Drobe spoke to a number of professionals who rely on the drag'n'drop in RISC OS.
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2006-08-11
Take for example the simple task of extracting a ZIP file, then going into the folder, cutting the file and then going up directory and pasting. This is a very common action.
Actually, in RISC OS, it didn't work like that.
Starting with RISC OS 3, archives were treated and behaved like regular directories no matter where you accessed them from, whether the command line or the filer. They were both simultaneously a file and directory, and you could tell them apart by the icon assigned to their file type.
FileCore (which is the system module that deals with file systems) allows you to write image file systems, and the handlers for archives were written as image file systems.
And to think I had to wait over a decade until another OS even barely approached this.
For all its problems, RISC OS really does kick an awful lot of ass.