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    RISC OS (/rɪsk.oʊˈɛs/) is an operating system designed to run on ARM computers. Originally designed in 1987 by Acorn Computers of England, it was made...
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  • RISC/os is a discontinued UNIX operating system developed by MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. from 1985 to 1992, for their computer workstations and servers...
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  • RISC OS, the computer operating system developed by Acorn Computers for their ARM-based Acorn Archimedes range, was originally released in 1987 as Arthur...
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    RISC OS Open Ltd. (also referred to as ROOL) is a limited company engaged in computer software and IT consulting. It is managing the process of publishing...
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    PC 700) RISC OS 3.70 (StrongARM Risc PC) RISC OS 3.71 (StrongARM Risc PC J233) RISC OS 4.03 (Kinetic Risc PC) RISC OS 4, RISC OS Select, RISC OS Adjust...
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    3BSD, it was initially completed in 1988, a year after Arthur but before RISC OS. It was introduced in the ARM2-based R140 workstation in 1989, followed...
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    RISC OS Open Limited FAQ". RISC OS Open. Retrieved June 13, 2011. Mellor, Phil (March 23, 2007). "An arbitrary number of possibly influential RISC OS...
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  • or !Run (RISC OS) to be launched. On RISC OS this is generally an Obey file (a RISC OS command script) which allocates memory and loads OS extension...
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    Menu bar (redirect from Menu bar (Mac OS X))
    on pull-down menus. In RISC OS, clicking the middle button displays a menu list at the location of the mouse pointer. The RISC OS implementation of menus...
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  • This is a sub-article to RISC OS. RISC OS filetypes use metadata to distinguish file formats. Some common file formats from other systems are mapped to...
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    NetSurf (category RISC OS web browsers)
    deficiencies of the RISC OS platform's existing web browsers. Shortly after the project's inception, development versions for RISC OS users were made available...
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    Acorn Archimedes (category RISC OS)
    Arthur operating system, with later models introducing RISC OS and, in a separate workstation range, RISC iX. The first Archimedes models were introduced in...
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  • operating systems such as RISC OS and NeXTSTEP. iOS has its own version of the Dock for the iPhone and iPod Touch, as does iPadOS for the iPad. Apple applied...
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  • AcornDoom was released for both the 26 and 32 bit ARM incarnations of RISC OS, by R-Comp Interactive, on February 7, 1998. It was made available in a...
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  • Foundation' - MARC". Revill, Steve (October 24, 2020). "RISC OS 5.28 now available". RISC OS Open. Retrieved October 24, 2020. "Oracle Solaris OTN License"...
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  • Icon bar (redirect from Icon bar (RISC OS))
    in Acorn's RISC OS operating system, and is fundamental to the OS. Its introduction in 1987 (as part of Arthur, the predecessor to RISC OS) was a new...
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  • SimCity 2000 (category Classic Mac OS games)
    ports of personal computers and video game consoles. A port for Acorn RISC OS was released in 1995. The conversion was performed by Krisalis Software...
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    ARM architecture and the RISC OS operating system for it. The architecture part of the business was spun-off as Advanced RISC Machines under a joint venture...
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  • improve compatibility across RISC OS machines and are free to any owner of a previous release. In 2002, a second branch for RISC OS was developed for newer...
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  • announced support in their applications for both Impulse and RISC OS, but ended up only releasing RISC OS versions of applications such as Impression. Another...
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  • Berkeley RISC Classic RISC pipeline, early RISC architecture CompactRISC, National Semiconductor family of RISC architectures MIPS RISC/os, a discontinued UNIX...
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    released their own Risc PC compatible design, the Iyonix PC, which was produced until 2008. RISC OS continued beyond the end of the Risc PC in a limited...
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    as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for...
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  • Debian 1.1 JN – microkernel OS for embedded, Java apps Mac OS 7.6 (First officially-named Mac OS) OS/2 Warp 4.0 Palm OS RISC OS 3.6 Windows NT 4.0 Windows...
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  • The Acorn RISC OS character set was used in the Acorn Archimedes series and subsequent computers from 1987 onwards. It is an extension of ISO/IEC 8859-1...
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    Iyonix PC (category RISC OS)
    was the first personal computer to use Intel's XScale processor. It ran RISC OS 5. The Iyonix originated as a secret project by Pace engineers in connection...
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  • NCOS (redirect from NC OS)
    Computers from its own RISC OS, which was originally developed for their range of Archimedes desktop computers. It shares with RISC OS the same 4 MB ROM size...
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    A9home (category RISC OS)
    computer running RISC OS Adjust32. It was officially unveiled at the 2005 Wakefield Show, and is the second commercial ARM-based RISC OS computer to run...
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  • citation to a reliable source. Arthur ARX MOS RISC iX RISC OS Fire OS AmigaOS AmigaOS 1.0-3.9 (Motorola 68000) AmigaOS 4 (PowerPC) Amiga Unix (a.k.a. Amix) AMSDOS...
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  • resource fork. Similar in concept are the application directories used in RISC OS and on the ROX Desktop. Examples of bundles that do not contain executable...
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