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Interesting NC article |
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pwx (16:29 18/5/2012)
trevj (18:54 18/5/2012)
filecore (19:57 18/5/2012)
swirlythingy (20:00 18/5/2012)
arawnsley (23:13 18/5/2012)
richw (08:31 19/5/2012)
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Philip Webster |
Message #120419, posted by pwx at 16:29, 18/5/2012 |
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From Wired, dating from 1996:
http://yoz.com/wired/2.09/features/acorn.html
Nice coverage of the NC. I have a couple of these at home, which I have yet to get working. The article mentions the ANT suite being used to provide Web access - I had thought that Acorn's own Browse was the NC browser.
Astounding that in these days of Sky Plus and similar services, Acorn could have failed so badly with the pioneering technology they were experimenting with.
There's also a highly cringe-worthy bit exactly half-way through the article which seems to be increasinly common. Spotting this is an exercise for the reader. |
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Trevor Johnson |
Message #120423, posted by trevj at 18:54, 18/5/2012, in reply to message #120419 |
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From Wired, dating from 1996: And here's the front cover. I should have the physical mag somewhere, too.
There's also a highly cringe-worthy bit exactly half-way through the article which seems to be increasinly common. Spotting this is an exercise for the reader. Must re-read this, then... anything to do with the System 1? |
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Jason Togneri |
Message #120425, posted by filecore at 19:57, 18/5/2012, in reply to message #120419 |
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There's also a highly cringe-worthy bit exactly half-way through the article which seems to be increasinly common. Spotting this is an exercise for the reader. My guess would be the use of "RISCOS". |
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Martin Bazley |
Message #120426, posted by swirlythingy at 20:00, 18/5/2012, in reply to message #120419 |
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There's also a highly cringe-worthy bit exactly half-way through the article which seems to be increasinly common. Spotting this is an exercise for the reader. Is it not the "sonsultancy", then? |
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Andrew Rawnsley |
Message #120429, posted by arawnsley at 23:13, 18/5/2012, in reply to message #120419 |
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I don't know if it is the cringeworthy bit, but I had a "hmmm" moment when it referred to Sophie designing the System One... "a comp science graduate when female comp sci graduates were rare". I suppose the statement is literally true, but the implied/intended meaning is somewhat wide of the mark. Plus, why bring gender into it at all? |
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Richard Walker |
Message #120435, posted by richw at 08:31, 19/5/2012, in reply to message #120419 |
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I played around with a few NC bits, back in the day. The first product was roughly RISC OS 3.6 with something called NCFresco - essentially a full-screen instance of Fresco, which supported tables and frames. Interesting, since at the time, ANT suggested that they needed the nested Wimp to implement frames in desktop Fresco...
From what I remember, there were rough edges. I think Acorn had a head-start with their existing technology, but once other players got involved, they were overtaken. There were 'gen 2' NC devices floating around based on Intel chips and running variants of NetBSD. |
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