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The RISC OS GUI

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75 points rbanffy | 3 comments | 18 May 25 13:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.707s | source
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lizknope ◴[18 May 25 17:57 UTC] No.44023164[source]▶
I searched for "ARM" and didn't see it in the article. The Acorn ran on ARM (that's what the A in ARM stood for anyway, Acorn RISC Machine)

You can run RISC OS on a Raspberry Pi which is also ARM based.

https://www.riscosopen.org/content/sales/risc-os-pi

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1. vintagedave ◴[19 May 25 03:25 UTC] No.44026302[source]▶
Looks like they’re seeking funding to port to 64-bit: https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2025/03/28/moonshot...
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2. snvzz ◴[19 May 25 04:30 UTC] No.44026514[source]▶
If they want to guarantee its future, maybe they should consider funding a RISC-V port as well, or instead.
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3. lproven ◴[19 May 25 11:01 UTC] No.44028446[source]▶
I believe that at one point there was a term in a licence agreement from one of the companies involved that basically prohibited it ever being ported to anything else... but that's long ago. I wrote about the Moonshot effort recently:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/01/risc_os_open_moonshot...

... And I'm still talking with ROOL about the directions they're examining. The restriction may no longer hold true.