Reply to post: Re: RiscOS really was magnificent but...

Roughly 30 years after its birth at UK's Acorn Computers, RISC OS 5 is going open source

werdsmith Silver badge

Re: RiscOS really was magnificent but...

RiscOS really was magnificent but...

...without preemptive multitasking it feels a little fragile these days. If you have a process go rogue for some reason, you can lock up the entire system.

It runs on Raspberry Pi but can only use one of the CPU's quad cores.

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