[mattkevan]

Those RM machines were terrible.

My secondary school was entirely Acorn and we'd had Amigas, Acorns and then Macs at home. I'd never really encountered Wintel until Sixth Form, where the college was full of Windows 3.1-era RMs.

Couldn't believe how primitive they were - compared to Workbench and RiscOS it was like stepping back into some terrible technological past. Don't think I used them willingly once in the whole time I was there. Still never used Windows much.

[micv]

Going from the Amiga or Archimedes to Windows 3.1 would have been painful. I'm glad I didn't get into the PC until Win 95 had showed up and got it to a semi-reasonable point.

[mavhc]

It's still painful trying to use any other GUI

[bencollier49]

Those weren't even fully-compatible PCs though, were they? If I remember correctly, the really popular ones were 80186-based.

[hughrr]

Indeed. They weren’t real PCs. Complete software and hardware lock in from RM.