Talk:History of RISC OS

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Text and/or other creative content from this version of RISC OS was copied or moved into History of RISC OS with this edit on 13:42, 4 July 2011. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

Early development

I've removed the following as it's been (rightly IMO) tagged as original research:

Despite rumours that Arthur stands for A Risc by THURsday or ARm on THURsday,^[1] no substantiated claims have been found.

--Trevj (talk) 10:22, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Erm, that quote, whilst amusing, doesn't say that the acronym is a myth, merely that the whole ARX dev and Arthur dev is fairly mythical. Incidentaly I'm still glad it's been removed, because whilst 'A Risc by THURsday' quotes and variants) have been kicking for years, I've never seen it said by anyone that that had primary knowledge, and certainly never in a way that was citable. Incidentaly the quote from Paul Fellows (who would have primary knowledge) that existed on a previous version of this page *is* good enough for me provided it's citable in some way. This is an example of one of those things that whilst very famous inside the Acorn/RISC OS world actually is really difficult to prove actually happened, and really doesn't lose a lot from the page if it's dropped.--Flibble (talk) 15:12, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We need to locate interviews with these guys from the time (or reinterview them and publish in suitable (editor-reviewed) publications so they can be included here, i.e. not original research). I'm at my parents' now but haven't yet had a chance to look through the old Micro Users/Acorn Computing and have to leave in 2 hours - may have to wait for another time :-( --Trevj (talk) 08:36, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I squeezed a dozen or so 1987/88 Micro Users and also some A&B Computing into the bag before leaving. --Trevj (talk) 19:41, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Chris Holgate (August 24, 2001). "Not A RISC By Thursday". Newsgroup: alt.folklore.computers. 9m43bf$j7n$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk. Retrieved June 14, 2011. And thus Arthur (A Risc by THURsday) was born. So that's the myth [...]

[1] Chris Holgate (August 24, 2001). "Not A RISC By Thursday". Newsgroup: alt.folklore.computers. 9m43bf$j7n$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk. Retrieved June 14, 2011. And thus Arthur (A Risc by THURsday) was born. So that's the myth [...]

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