Modernising RISC OS in 2020: is there hope for the ancient ARM OS?

Re:Modernising RISC OS in 2020: is there hope for the ancien... by ithkuil on Saturday October 10, 2020 @02:00AM (#24736954)

> But obviously it's for original RISC i.e. ARM.

Not sure if you actually mean that, but to me it sounds like you're implying that ARM is the "original RISC".

The first RISC processor was called RISC-I and came out of Berkeley research in 1981.

Around the same time came out the MIPS cpu, from Standford university, by a group who shortly after founded a company that by 1985 commercialized the first RISC CPU, the R2000.

ARM, SPARC and PA-RISC came out just about the same time.

The ideas were brewing for some time, but I think it's safe to say historically that the name "RISC" was not invented by ARM and that the R in ARM references a pre-existing term that has been developed at Berkeley.

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Re:Modernising RISC OS in 2020: is there hope for the ancien... by albanread on Saturday October 10, 2020 @01:07PM (#24740295)

It really was the original RISC in a personal computer; you could actually buy one (especially in the UK); and run it at home; the others were things that lived in computer rooms and drove green screen terminals.

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Re:Modernising RISC OS in 2020: is there hope for the ancien... by ncmncm on Saturday October 10, 2020 @03:47AM (#24737288)

The original RISC was the IBM 801, in ~1975, or arguably even the CDC 6600 in 1965. It is hard to identify anything that originated in the RISC-1.

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Re:Modernising RISC OS in 2020: is there hope for the ancien... by ithkuil on Saturday October 10, 2020 @08:37AM (#24738538)

Didn't register windows originate at Berkeley?

Sure, the IBM 801, the CDC 6600 and others were forerunners, but it was the Berkeley research project that popularized the acronym IIRC.

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Re:Modernising RISC OS in 2020: is there hope for the ancien... by ilaksh on Saturday October 10, 2020 @03:55AM (#24737318)

Okay so it was just the most popular RISC and not the original one.

So good job on that correction but it doesn't seem necessary to downvote me. I thought I had some interesting comments about the future of operating systems on RISC.

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Re:Modernising RISC OS in 2020: is there hope for the ancien... by asveikau on Saturday October 10, 2020 @10:47AM (#24739337)

Most popular hasn't always been accurate either. If you asked in the 90s there'd be alpha, ppc, sparc. There was a time when I would have put all of those as more relevant than ARM.

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