ARX and Arthur at ROUGOL, Monday 15th October 2012

[ROUGOL]

The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be:

ARX, Arthur and RISC OS
Presented by Paul Fellows, development team leader at Acorn

Monday 15th October 2012, 7:45pm

The Blue-Eyed Maid (upstairs in the Spice Lounge restaurant)
173 Borough High Street
London, SE1 1HR


Paul Fellows worked for Acorn from 1983 to 1987, having previously
had published a number of software titles for the BBC Micro.
Initially Paul worked on developing programming language systems,
including Pascal, Logo, Forth and C.

Then in 1986 when the originally planned operating system for the
new Archimedes machines, ARX, was taking too long to complete, he
was put in charge of the team given the task of developing an
alternative. This was the OS that was to become Arthur/RISC OS.

Paul will tell us how that came about and what happened to the ARX
operating system, amongst other tales from the early days of our
favourite OS.

After leaving Acorn Paul went on to work on the Genesis multimedia
system at Oak Solutions and on Fireworkz for Colton Software, and
is now CEO of Kynesim.


RISC OS London Show
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This year's London Show is on Saturday 27th October, at its usual
venue the St Giles Hotel in Feltham.

Latest news on the website: http://www.riscoslondonshow.co.uk/


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The usual arrangements
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Admittance is free and everyone is welcome. A range of hot and cold
food, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, will be on sale.

Anyone with wireless enabled handhelds or laptops can access the
internet during the meeting, or (if time allows) use ROUGOL's
RiscPC to do so after the main presentation has finished.

The venue is between London Bridge and Borough tube stations, so
readily accessible by public transport (both stations are a five
minute walk away, through well lit and CCTV'd main streets). It
also has ample cycle parking (covered by CCTV) very close by.

If you are arriving by car, the Congestion Charge ends at 6pm and
our meeting starts much later. However, please note that parking
on double red lines is restricted at all times. On single red or
yellow lines it is best to park after 7pm. If you are not familiar
with *central* London parking or driving, please allow extra time,
patience, and maps.

If you need any help reaching the venue, or any other information,
please contact us as below.

RISC OS User Group Of London in...@rougol.jellybaby.net
http://rougol.jellybaby.net/ 07970 211 629



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