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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.apps
From: Chika <miy...@spam-no-way.invalid>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:51:44 +0100
Local: Sun 25 Mar 2007 23:51
Subject: Re: Future of Risc OS
In article <3dd6c6c84e.zen44...@zen.co.uk>, Simon Smith
<simon_smith_n...@zen.co.uk> wrote: It's a tendency with kit that has had any measure of popularity that it > But I said that almost seven years ago in mid-2000, and RISC OS is in no > more or less trouble now than it was then. As I recall the Phoebe crisis > was back then, and then there was Acorn disappearing entirely, and so on > . . . I suspect you (and I, and others) may be worrying needlessly. An > OS that is still 'dying' seven years after I (and many others) said it > was dying can't really be as sick as all that. Were I to make another > similar post today, I'd give it another five years just as I did in > 2000. and once again I'd be absolutely delighted to come back and have > to eat my words sometime around 2015. tends to hang on long after its day is done. Just look at the number of times that somebody has said that COBOL is dead since the 60's, or how long it took to kill off systems like the PDP11 or AS400. Or the 8-bit BBC Micro, for that matter! If, indeed, you could say that any of the above are actually dead. -- ... It's not the money I want, it's the stuff. You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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