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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2005-08-02
I gave up on RiscOS/RiscPC when I started photographing more actively. The RiscPC I owned back then just didn't cut it. Photodesk was nice, but I think there is no support at all anymore. Let alone a decent RAW application.
But it was very nice indeed, I even preferred it to BeOS in some ways. now I'm a mac user, I sometimes look back to those days, and I'm happy there'll be a decent RISCOS emulator for OSX, just to play around.