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Is it “RISC OS” or “RiscOS”?

April 26, 2017riscos

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Is it “RISC OS” or “RiscOS”?

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You’ll find that newsgroup archives may contain some rather patronisingly rude postings pointing out that it is “RISC OS” (in capitals, with a space) and anybody who thinks otherwise is a . Now you’ll see, within the actual sources, frequent references to “RiscOS” (mixed case, all run together). I think that “RISC OS” is the trade name, the genuine name, while “RiscOS” was what real people called it. That said, Acorn seemed to like to play with their acronyms… was it Acorn RISC Machine or is it Advanced RISC Microprocessor? Actually, both! It was Acorn RISC Machine at the beginning, and somwhere I have a lapel-badge to prove it. Later, when they wanted to move away from the associations of the ‘Acorn’ brand (which, sadly, never got over the popularity of the BBC micro, but this held them back in the ’90s when they released the A3000 BBC Micro and stupid people apparently didn’t realise it was something totally new trading on the older name…) they ch