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{{Operating-system-stub}} Category:Acorn Computers Category:Acorn Computers operating systems

Chris's Acorns edit

Discussion at User talk:Xymmax

Useful links for editing edit

Article references edit

Misc edit

General journal/magazine refs edit

BBC Micro edit

Beeb@30 edit

RPCEmu edit

BYTE edit

Potential articles for reference. Also need to check Drobe and research printed copies of Micro User, Acorn User, Archive, etc.

Note: Academic journals should be grouped together some time, for someone with access to a university library to look into!

PCW edit

Popular Computing Weekly edit

Sibelius edit

Education edit

Photos edit

Spellings Computer Services edit

End of Acorn Workstations edit

  • "Interesting Times"
  • "Acorn: The Future"
  • "The Big Rescue Plan"
  • RISC User 11/10
  • "Acorn Ex Xemplar"

Xemplar edit

Element 14 edit

  • RISC User 11/10
  • "Acorn launches Element 14 Ltd"

ARM edit

  • RISC User 11/7
  • "Acorn to sell its ARM stake"

StrongARM edit

ANT edit

Cogwheel edit

Acorn clones edit

  • RISC User 11/6
  • "Taking the MEDIcation"
  • RISC User 11/7
  • "Designs on the Medi"
  • "MicroDigital Meditations"

RISC OS edit

Pace edit

Acorn Cybervillage edit

RISCOS Ltd edit

  • "RISC OS:The Future"

ROOL shared source initiative edit

Qercus edit

Castle edit

  • "King of the Castle"

A9 edit

ARMini edit

Newspad edit

NC edit

  • "The Making of the NC"
  • "MATRIX Multiplication"
  • RISC User 11/6
  • "The NC Examined"

Online Media edit

Cambridge Digital Interactive Television Trial edit

Oregan edit

Acorn (2006) edit

Vintage edit

TBA Software edit

Computer Concepts edit

Accountz edit

GUI edit

Windows on ARM edit

(Elite - unrelated to RISC OS)


Raspberry Pi edit

Acorn Computers edit

Acorn Browse edit

Steve Furber edit

Andy Hopper edit

Olivetti Research Labs edit

Books edit

Shows/events 2000-2003 edit

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Interesting external sites edit

Test edit


CTL edit

Castle Technology Ltd.
Company typePrivate
IndustryComputer software, Computer hardware
FoundedFramlingham, UK (June 4, 1993 (1993-06-04))
FounderJohn Ballance, Jack Lillingston, Peter Wild
Headquarters
Colchester
,
UK
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Jack Lillingston, Co-founder and Managing director
John Ballance, Co-founder and Chief technical officer
ProductsIyonix PC, Risc PC, RISC OS 5
Websitecastle-technology.co.uk
  • I think that Iyonix is a separate company, and therefore won't be listed as a subsidiary.
  • Also, we could do with including a replacement for this official image, as it's presumably not free. (There are also five photos on the current website, but I can't see the article becoming long enough (in the short- to medium-term) to warrant a photo for each machine.)
  • Include PNG of Iyonix logo.

RISC OS edit

Logos edit

While under Acorn's ownership, the identity of RISC OS was integral to that of Acorn itself.[1] Previously, RISC OS used the Acorn nut device as its representative symbol[1], but that trademark (or a derivative of it) had subsequently been registered by Aristide & Co Antiquaire De Marques.[citation needed] After Acorn's demise, there was a need to establish a specific visual identity by way of a new logo.[1]

RISCOS Ltd's RISC OS 4 already had its own logo, a 3D cube.[1] Therefore, a new logo was designed by Richard Hallas, a former editor of RISC User magazine.[citation needed] His design was created with the intention of satisfying all of the following conditions:

  • It should be graphically simple, but yet have a complex enough shape to be recognisable at a glance.
  • It should be simple enough to be usable purely as a shape in monochrome, but with a more attractive complementary colour version.
  • It should be visually interesting when viewed at a large size, but still recognisable even if used at extremely small sizes (such as in the corners of file icons).
  • It should be usable in isolation or in combination with other text, just as the Acorn Nut could appear either on its own or at the end of the word 'Acorn'; in which case it must form an appropriately balanced whole.
  • It should be a regular shape which can easily be used within other designs and which is not greatly affected by questions of angle or perspective.
  • In its colour form, it should make use of few colours in order to avoid over-complexity, have impact, and be capable of being printed with spot colours for limited-colour printing. Notably, there was a flat green version of the Acorn Nut as well as the nice, shaded 3D version.
  • Whilst the question of being an abstract design isn't a problem (lots of logos are abstract), it should preferably be a fairly even shape; not too tall or thin. The Acorn logo was taller than it was wide, but only by a little; the Apple logo is more or less square in terms of its bounding box; the Windows logo is a rotated rectangle with roughly 4:3 proportions. These are all harmonious, flexible shapes.
    — Richard Hallas, 'Rebranding RISC OS' article, on RISCOS Ltd's website[1]

Table of logo variants edit

Note: The full table may ultimately be migrated elsewhere during the process of moving this draft to WP:NS0. It's included here to see how it looks and hangs with the rest of the section/article.

Standard Graphical Graphical (spot colour)
3D (colour) File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel gen std 3d col preferred.svg File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel gen graph 3d col full.svg File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel gen graph 3d col spot.svg
2D (colour) File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel gen std 2d col.svg File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel gen graph 2d col full.svg File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel gen graph 2d col spot.svg
2D (monochrome) File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel gen std 2d.svg File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel gen graph 2d mono.svg File:Riscos logo generic cogwheel gen graph 2d mono.svg

Ref edit

Norcroft edit

Different referencing styles/advice edit

About template edit

Extraneous links testing.

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References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e Hallas, Richard (2001). "Rebranding RISC OS". RISCOS Ltd. Retrieved 2011-03-14. [...] which of course was wholly appropriate while Acorn itself was the sole producer of RISC OS-based systems. Cite error: The named reference "rebranding risc os" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).

Desktop edit

The WIMP interface incorporates three mouse buttons (named Select, Menu and Adjust), context-sensitive menus, window order control (i.e. send to back) and dynamic window focus (a window can have input focus at any position on the stack). The Icon bar holds icons which represent mounted disc drives, RAM discs, running applications and system utilities. These icons have context-sensitive menus and support drag-and-drop behaviour. They represent the running application as a whole, irrespective of whether it has open windows.

The GUI is centred around the concept of files. The Filer displays the contents of a disc. Applications are run from the Filer view and files cam be dragged to the Filer view from applications to perform saves. Application directories are used to store applications. The OS differentiates them from normal directories through the use of a pling (exclamation mark) prefix. Double-clicking on such a directory launches the application rather than opening the directory. The application's executable files and resources are contained within the directory, but normally they remain hidden from the user. Because applications are self-contained, this allows drag-and-drop installation and removal.

The outline font manager provides anti-aliasing of fonts, the OS being the first operating system to include such a feature,[1][2][3][4] having included it since before January 1989[5] The RISC OS Style Guide encourages a consistent look and feel across applications. This was introduced in RISC OS 3 and specifies application appearance and behaviour. Acorn was criticised by some for not updating its own applications to comply with the Style Guide.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Round, Mark (2004-02-26). "Emulating RISC OS under Windows". OSnews. OSNews. Retrieved 2011-05-12. Many of the UI concepts that we take for granted were first pioneered in RISC OS, for instance: scalable anti-aliased fonts and an operating system extendable by 'modules', while most of the PC world was still on Windows 3.0.
  2. ^ Ghiraddje (2009-12-22). "The RISC OS GUI". Telcontar.net. Retrieved 2011-05-12. Only with Mac OS X did any mainstream graphical interface provide the smoothly rendered, fractionally spaced type that Acorn accomplished in 1992 or earlier.
  3. ^ Reimer, Jeremy (2005-05). "A History of the GUI". ArsTechnica. Retrieved 2011-05-25. [...] in 1987, the UK-based company Acorn Computers introduced their [...] GUI, called "Arthur", also was the first to feature anti-aliased display of on-screen fonts, even in 16-color mode! {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ Holwerda, Thom (2005-06-23). "Screen Fonts: Shape Accuracy or On-Screen Readability?". OSNews. Retrieved 2011-06-13. [...] it was RISC OS that had the first system-wide, intricate [...] font rendering in operating systems.
  5. ^ Pountain, Dick (1988-12). "Screentest: Archie RISC OS" (PDF). Personal Computer World. p. 154. Retrieved 2011-01-14. [ArcDraw] can also add text in multiple sizes and fonts to a drawing (including anti-aliased fonts) {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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