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Re:Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM by keithpeter on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @06:07AM (#9844491)
"Now I certainly enjoyed the platform but in retrospect, I'd have invested my money in something else back then if I knew what was going to happen."

I take your point about Acorn as a business but I used a 'lab' full of RISC-OS 2 bases A310s at College with 20Mb Rodime hard drives. We did scanning, dtp, Genesis multimedia packages &c and various home grown projects.

What else could we have bought at that time for similar use cases? Not trolling, my memory of the time is hazy and I recollect being extremely underwhelmed by DOS based PCs in another 'lab'.

EDIT: flashbacks to Aldus Framemaker on Apricot PCs, Amstrad PCW spreadsheet applications being used in a theatre box office, and an early 9" screen Mac being used with some form of DTP software.

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Re:Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM by rjsw on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @06:19AM (#9844533)
I found it fairly easy to port stuff to the Atari ST. My local university used them in labs too.
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Re:Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM by fred2133 on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @08:54AM (#9845074)
My college had an (experimental?) machine they got from Acorn that dual-booted into a 'nix OS. It got stuck in a corner and forgotten about, but if it had been a few years later I think it could have been an amazing project for them.
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Re:Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM by linker3000 on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @11:33AM (#9846050)
When I was in secondary school, we had a plain grey, all-in-one keyboard and system desktop case that had a microdrive and was connected to a hacked colour TV via a massive umbilical cord. It turned out to be a BBC Micro prototype.
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Re:Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM by batou on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @09:27AM (#9845252)
They sold a BSD port called RISCiX.
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Re:Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM by wglb on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @08:03AM (#9844876)
Aldus did Pagemaker; Adobe bought Framemaker.
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Re:Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM by wglb on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @08:02AM (#9844872)
Aldus did Pagemaker; Adobe bought Framemaker.
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Re:Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM by keithpeter on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @11:33AM (#9846051)
Thanks, yes I remember the package now.
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