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ebiederm | 11 months ago

The situation RISC OS dates to the beginning of ARM and still lives but is 32bit only and in assembly. They have been getting sponsorship for small improvements.

32bit Arm is going away.

They are looking for the resources for a 64bit port.

That seems like an entirely reasonable ask. I don't know if enough people are interested but it seems entirely reasonable to ask.

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laurencerowe|11 months ago

This seems totally reasonable but wasn’t the original problem that RiscOS was 26bit Arm?

Symbiote|11 months ago

It was originally 26 bit (running on 32 bit processors but only 26 bits used for addressing RAM? Something like that...)

At some point was updated to 32 bit, you can run it on a Raspberry Pi.

chasil|11 months ago

"32bit Arm is going away."

Unlikely for embedded.

ajb|11 months ago

It's true in context. 32bit is going away for the class of device most people would run riscos on.