[mattkevan]

I had a series of Acorn machines over the years - I used a trusty A/410 with 200mb hard drive as my main machine right up to the early 2000s and taught myself both design and programming with it. I knew that thing inside and out.

At the time - and I still sort of do - I thought that, despite its idiosyncrasies, RiscOS was way ahead of Windows and the Mac. For example the Mac only got scaling scrollbar widgets with System 9, and the boot time was amazing. (Upgrading from RiscOS 3 to RiscOS 4 by carefully prising out and replacing a bunch of ROM chips was fun.)

In hindsight they made the right choice, but I was bitterly disappointed when the parents bought a Mac over a RiscPC. Teenaged me didn't let them forget how unhappy I was for quite a while...

Getting RiscOS ported to the Raspberry Pi was a great move, a real blast of nostalgia, but I'd love to see what a modern-day version would be like – 64 bit, great graphics, lightning fast, weird extra mouse button.

It makes me happy that their technical legacy lives on in ARM, and their educational spirit is continued with the Pi.