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[Richmond Mathewson]

Peter Alcibiades wrote:

"Rev is cross platform and on any old hardware"

Really?

Must try it on an Iyonix running RISC OS 5!

I don't know about Symbian OS . . . 

Any OLD hardware ???

Well, it cannot spit a standalone out for the Amiga I
have (admittedly rotting in the attic in Scotland),
nor many of the other pieces of old but not done-for
stuff lying around schools just waiting to be used for
some good. As the 'developed world' keeps being
'charitable' and dumping old machines on schools in
supposedly less-developed countries this is not
entirely as daft as it seems.

Ooh; does Runtime Revolution produce standalones that
will run on the $100 laptop ?

Now I know that RR's argument is that to develop for
RISC OS and so forth is not commercially viable (and
they are, probably, right).

However, consider the following:

While PCs running RISC OS are a serious case of niche
market, a vast number of embedded systems run RISC OS
and use ARM processors.

Therefore is might behoove some interested parties to
look into the possibilities both of developing
translators to turn RR code into code for "funny
machines" with "funny operating systems", and vice
versa.

My motivation is pretty near ground zero as I work
with Macs and Ubuntu . . . mind you, if somebody were
to "lob" me a RISC OS PC and a jolly good contract I
would probably sit up and take notice very quickly
indeed!

I am fairly well locked into RR; however I have found
that I can move to most O-O languages when the need
arises - what I learnt in the past with HC and happy
line-number languages have left me with sufficient
transferable skills as to allow me to adapt fairly
quickly. I would suspect that that is true of most
users of RR.

If you wish, you are free to read this as Richmond
going through one of his bl**dy-minded patches;
alternatively you could see that the old HC article
might be making a point that is still relevant today.

sincerely, Richmond Mathewson

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