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grumpyprole on June 28, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Was Acorn's RISC OS an under-appreciated pearl of ...

I think it's fair. Unix has a lot of legacy baggage. It's largely terminal-based with three character folder names and two character commands, a monolithic kernel, the C programming language. In contrast, Acorn's ARX was fully graphical, used a microkernel and was written in Modula 2+/3. It sounds like the hardware wasn't quite ready for it though.

asveikau on June 28, 2020 [–]

But he was contrasting with Darwin/XNU in the statement. You may say it's visually pleasing but in many other senses it's uglier than any given *BSD.

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