On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 09:23, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Richard Torrens wrote:
>
> > > Which RISCOS? Acorn's or the other one? (I'm familiar with the former,
> > > not the latter. I used to to testing for Acorn. In fact, I'm at home,
> > > posting this from a RISC PC running RISC OS as it happens.)
> >
> > There is only one... Acorn's workstation operation was sold to Pace.
>
> No, there is another one. It was (is?) some kind of operating system for
> a MIPS risc processor. I know no more about it, but I have had
> misunderstandings in the past. That was why I was checking.
Yup - when MIPs were their own company (ie up until around 1992), and
built systems as well as designing CPU sets, their sysv derivative was
called Risc/OS. Slightly odd environment, I used to regularly send
portability patches for packages - you can probably find some still in
Smail.
Nigel.
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