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Patience
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RiscOS patience
In the UK on Acorn's old RiscOS machines; RiscOS was the first multitasking GUI, and it took a bit of getting your head around as a programmer. Factor into that the fact that the ARM chips were RISC processors - ie. they had a reduced instruction set, and were also 32 bit processors not the more familar 16 or 8 bit; then people found it a bit hard ...
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Procrastination
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captainfun
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May 19, 2008