A German RISC OS dealer managed to get some local TV coverage. It’s not often you’ll see mainstream TV coverage of any alternative operating system.
A German RISC OS dealer managed to get some local TV coverage. It’s not often you’ll see mainstream TV coverage of any alternative operating system.
This is particularly interesting, given all the rumors presently surrounding the ARM and the RISC architecture.
Don’t get your (alternative) hopse too high. This was on “Regionalfernsehen Bitterfeld-Wolfen”, a local TV station. Most of those stations can’t even afford a teleprompter. And “Bitterfeld-Wolfen”? That’s about as far from civilized places you can get. Picture a small town in Ohio. Now subtract the local mall, the McDonalds and half the churches. If there’s anything happening in town, they’ll report it. After the RISC OS report you probably got something about the local soccer team and the problems of farmers…
Well, speaking of alternativ operating systems, when the local TV station in my town started, they had about one hour of actual programming per day. The rest was snapshots of their teletext. And ever so often, that just resulted in a “Guru medidation error”. Quite funny when you’re browsing channels and get Amiga errors…
I remembered RISC OS pc platform is about the same time as Atari ST and Amiga era. Good to see that Risc OS is still in active development …
Castle Bitterfeld-Wolfenstein?
I was surprised to read about RBW here.
I’m able to receive RBW in my home town, and Michael –
you’re right it’s really crappy local TV.
They also seem to broadcast from VHS tapes – you can picture the quality of that.
BTW – I think they do have a McDonald’s there, well at least one in Wolfen.
(McDonald’s plague is everywhere 😉 )
About the region:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitterfeld_(district)
Yeah well for all the people complaining atleast its something. It may only be a tiny audience, but this may evolve and possibly get to a slightly bigger channel.
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