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jlarcombe
on June 28, 2020
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Was Acorn's RISC OS an under-appreciated pearl of ...
Yes. Also extremely good native support for outline fonts and vector graphics.
flir
on June 28, 2020
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Real-time spellcheck years before Office had it always impressed me.
Plus I have a soft spot for co-operative multitasking.
mattkevan
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The built-in !DRAW app was surprisingly powerful. It was clunky, but with practice it was possible to do some sophisticated stuff with it.
jlarcombe
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Yes, and it was implemented in terms of an underlying vector drawing module which could be used by 3rd party apps and even from BBC BASIC fairly easily.
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