Re:Acorn RISC Machine (Score 1)

As an ex-Acorn (the machine, not the company) programmer, I'd like to point out a few things. The performance was exceptional for it's time, when the StrongARM arrived it kicked the arse of everything else. It's reliability was a problem when used with crap software, but otherwise excellent. having the OS is ROM is generally a good thing, it can't be erased, however, the whole thing wasn't in ROM, just enough to get by on if you had to, the best of both worlds. The cosmetics weren't great, but no worse than your typical Dell/Tiny/whoever piece of crap. RISC OS (the name of the OS) was ahead of it's time, it's drag and drop is still unparralled, it makes KDE/GNOME look pretty stupid, but hey, a pen and paper makes GNOME look pretty stupid. I no longer use Acorns, but they were great machines, they have just been left behind now.