RISC OS 5.30 now available

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"Out of the box WiFi support for those models which have the chip on board (3B, 3A+, 3B+, 4B, 400, Compute Module 4, Zero W and Zero 2W)"

Nice.

I grew up on RISC OS, and will forever fondly remember the desktop (especially 3.7 pre Win95), but when I've tried using it lately it is just a reminder of the folly of esoteric filesystems, on top of everything else.

It's kind of amazing the tenacity of people to manage to keep updating all this. Honestly I have no idea how they put up with things like the state of the build environments and so on.

They've put out, and made thousands of pounds £ of bounties for improvements. The dedication is like the Amiga community.

It uses Acorn's own ADFS filesystem from the BBC Micro, which was released in 1981 if I remember correctly. MS-DOS and the IBM PC were new that year and not any kind of standard yet. The Acorn MOS and PC DOS are contemporaries. It would be a decade before Linux 0.01 existed, 14 years before FAT32.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Disc_Filing_System

It may look esoteric to you now, but it was a solid pragmatic choice in 1987 when this OS shipped, the same year as OS/2 1.0 and thus rather before HPFS which trailed OS/2 itself by several years as I recall.

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