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Yeah I've tinkered with it. RISC OS has some huge limitations in the 21st century, most notably, no multithreading, so you can never use more than a single core. On top of that 32-bit only (and 26-bit software from the 90s crashes), no IPv6, tiny fixed-size icons... sadly, the OS is dating rapidly.


There are some efforts to bring it into the modern era.




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