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RISC OS: 35-year-old original Arm operating system is alive and well

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Re: The 24th June is the anniversary for me

When I was a student at Strathclyde Uni, one of the lecturers worked at the company that developed 1st Word.

He said in a software development lecture that the way they improved performance between versions was to reduce the counter in random for loops that basically did nothing except slow down the performance.

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