[pjc50]

The dramatisation "Micro Men" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Men covers some of the early history here, including the super-rapid creation of the BBC Micro and a cameo by Sophie Wilson.

Risc OS was roughly contemporary with Windows 3.0 and Apple's system 7, offering a cheaper and seemingly faster system (although rather idiosyncratic in its use of the mouse menubutton and drag-and-drop instead of save dialogs). It booted from ROM in something like a second.

[andyjohnson0]

Micro Men is available on youtube [1] and is definitely worth a watch. The scene were one of the characters is eating noodles using multimeter probes as chopsticks made me smile.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM

[72deluxe]

You may struggle to find Sophie in that film because at that time she was a man, and was Roger with the long hair (if I recall correctly). Very informative programme, some funny scenes with Sinclair driving past in his C5.

I still love my Beeb, great machines. Very well written manuals too!

[rjsw]

The cameo appearance by Sophie is as a barmaid in a pub.