Back in the 90s my High School only had Acorns for the students, although there was a lab of them with the PC cards wed play Scorched Earth on.
I had an Amiga at home and was so frustrated at not having access to x86 PCs.
In hindsight I realise how fortunate I was to learn programming and be exposed to these different very forward thinking OSes very early.
RISC OS began my experience of hacking software by being able to click into the application and edit stuff. Trying to bypass the security to do more on them also honed early development and explorative techniques too.
Same here. You could open up application bundles and inspect and modify the contents. You could even turn a folder into an executable and run a script whenever anyone tried to open it.
I had hours of fun on the school computers making weird stuff happen whenever anyone tried to open an application or access their documents folder.
Being able to drop into a BASIC shell at any point by hitting F12 was cool too.
I had an Amiga at home and was so frustrated at not having access to x86 PCs.
In hindsight I realise how fortunate I was to learn programming and be exposed to these different very forward thinking OSes very early.
RISC OS began my experience of hacking software by being able to click into the application and edit stuff. Trying to bypass the security to do more on them also honed early development and explorative techniques too.