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http://productsdb.riscos.com/admin/riscos.htm states You may like to know that Acorn's first release of the Desktop in 1987 was written in BBC BASIC! Can this be verified? It sounds implausible but perhaps there's truth in it. Which published articles are there which refer to the work of Paul Fellows and his team? --Trevj (talk) 10:50, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Arthur was written in assembler. The Arthur desktop was a demo program written in BBC basic by Richard Manby, who also wrote the graphic libraries for Arthur. These things are the facts : Paul fellows , Arthur team leader 1985-87
Also the Arthur == Arm on Thursday is the correct quote, Paul Fellows.
I don't have any web sources to quote for this, but would point out that, How could I have original web sources FFS, this was how many years before the web existed???
Anyone wants to quote me, I am Paul.fellows@ntlworld.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.6.155.46 (talk) 22:50, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
"I believe that the word Arthur comes from the fact they wanted ARm on THURsday, because of the crisis, but that's my memory of it, and there's a bit of debate and other people may say different things."This isn't quite the same as what's noted above.
I've removed the following as it's been (rightly IMO) tagged as original research:
Despite rumours that Arthur stands for A Risc by THURsday or ARm on THURsday,[1] no substantiated claims have been found.
--Trevj (talk) 10:22, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
References
And thus Arthur (A Risc by THURsday) was born. So that's the myth [...]
Arthur was Arm on Thursday . This was at a board meeting where Acorn technical director, Jim Mercian gave me, Paul Fellows, the challenge to develop a new BBC micro like OS for the Arm in five months, using the programmers of the Acornsoft languages team : Tony Thompson, Stuart Swales, Richard Manby supported,by Tim Dobson, nick reeves and Brian Cockburn. There are no primary references for this because it was 1985, well before the web existed. Doubt it? Try emailing Paul.fellows@ntwlorld.com
"It initially ran from a 512 KB ROM module." - isn't the word "module" redundant? Does one call a set of ROMs (there were four of them) a "module"? --HeyRick1973 (talk) 17:54, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Yes, module is not correct, Paul fellows — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.6.155.46 (talk) 22:57, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
The section "Shared Source Initiative" says "Ports of RISC OS 5 to the BeagleBoard and Risc PC/A7000 are, however, under way." This needs updating. There is a development (5.19) IOMD (RiscPC) build that works on the RiscPC, A7000, and RiscPC-like emulators. The X-Scale Iyonix has both stable (5.18) and development (5.19) versions available. The OMAP3 (Beagle(xM) etc) boards have both a stable release (5.18) and the latest development release (5.19); which is running okay on my Beagle xM (for example). The OMAP4 (Pandora) has the development release (5.19), as does the RaspberryPi board.
While there may be some issues with the development release (as a work in progress), it is safe to say that hardware with 5.18 has a functional version of RISC OS available, while hardware with 5.19 has had RISC OS ported to it.
I write this not to suggest a big list in the Wiki article, but rather to point out how out of date the content is.
Speaking of which, there should probably be a screenshot of RISC OS 5, for the two shown (Arthur and RISC OS 3.11) are quite dated (yuck, look at all that VDU text!). --HeyRick1973 (talk) 18:14, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
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https://web.archive.org/web/20070324200411/http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/docs/Mags/PCW/PCW_Aug87_Archimedes.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.100.60.14 (talk) 23:27, 27 September 2019 (UTC)