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Acorn Computer's RISC OS operating system finally goes fully open source

23 October 2018 • 4 min read

RISC OS 5 to form the basis of RISC OS Open after Castle Technology sells to RISC OS Developments

RISC OS, the operating system that powered Acorn Computer's Archimedes computers in the 1980s and 1990s, has been fully released to open source. The move was welcomed by Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Up...

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