Van Someren, Alex, and Nic Van Someren.
Archimedes Operating System. A Dabhand guide.
Prestwich: Dabs Press, 1991.
ISBN 1-870336-48-8
(320 pages, 7.5 MB PDF)
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For Archimedes users who take their computing seriously, this guide to the Operating System gives you a real insight into the micro’s inner workings. The book is applicable to any model of Archimedes whether running the Arthur or RISC OS Operating Systems. The Relocatable Module system is one of the many areas covered â its format is explained, and the information necessary to enable you to write your own modules and applications is provided. This tutorial approach is repeated through the book. The sound system is explained and the text includes much information never before published. The discerning user will revel in the wealth of information covering many aspects of Arthur and RISC OS including: and much more… Throughout the book, programs are used to provide practical examples to use side by side with the text, which go to make this publication the table-side companion for all Archimedes users. Alex and Nic van Someren have both worked for Acorn Computers. Alex is a former Technical Editor of Acorn User magazine and author of numerous computer-related books. |
In my quest to preserve retrocomputing documents, here is a very interesting reference of the orginal Acorn RISC Machine (ARM) computing platform and the RISC OS Operating System. Thanks to Dominik Wagner for the book. As always, my scanned books come with a table of contents and are fully searchable.
Das ruft bÜse Erinnerungen wach. Tolles System gewesen, mit einem Dock! Gibts die jungens von Blue Sky in Berlin eigentlich noch? Ich muss mal schauen, ob ich die alten Zeitschriften noch habe. Was war das fßr eine tolle Zeit. B&H gibts immer noch und ich kann mich noch genau an die Amiga Messe erinnern, bei der wir die Geräte ausgestellt und Demonstriert hatten.
Der Mac erinnert (vom Interface) und durch Parallels/VMWare schon ein wenig an den Archimedes⌠Tolles Gerät, tolles System!
I’ve recently been dabbling on this platform again after a ~20 year hiatus. I misplaced my copy of this indispensable reference at some point in the intervening period, so I am overjoyed to be reacquainted with its content here.
Thank you both very much for your work in preserving it.
Interesting, looks like those are the brothers that went on to found nCipher. I didn’t know they were into Acorn back in the day.
http://www.siliconfenbusiness.com/articles/nCipher-enters-post-van-Someren-era-in-the-black-with-higher-revenues-sees-profit-dip-in-2008-as-it-gears-up/441
Thanks!
Great stuff as always coming from you guys! Keep ’em coming.
It’s not just the authors who went on to other things. Dabs is still in business, selling computer gear in the UK, though not books.
http://www.dabs.com/article.aspx?articleid=446
-cheers from julz @P
Thanks!!
having worked on emulators for both the Archimedes and the Risc PC this will be added to my library of documentation and probably be read 3 times 😉
Best regards,
Jan Rinze.
Thank you!
Your blog is very interesting for me and an important player to the computer history!
Best regards,
Adriano Ueda
Am meisten hatte mich am Archimedes immer die ARM Prozessorarchitektur in Kombination mit dem VIDC Grafikchip fasziniert – derzeit sind es Multicore Stackprozessoren und virtuelle Maschinen.
Thanks for making this available, and I appreciate you putting in the work to make it searchable. I’ve got a paper copy of this on my bookshelf and it had a lot of use over the years.
Linus has so much as admitted to me…
there would be no Linux had there not been Archimedes Operating System.
@jackJ:
sorry but I heard Linus first compute was a Sinclair Ql ?!??
By the way, QDos was and is a very nice and little operating system with some, not so obvious, similarys to CCP/M – which influences OS/2 also.
Acorn forever!
Myself, like another poster above, is returning to the archie after 17 year break. Luckily I still have most of the original books, except for this one.
Thanks!
Have you heard that Apple revealed today OS X 10.7 . The Lion as it is called seems to have some great new features. I am very happy! It is scheduled to ship in the summer of 2011.
that’s great, i like it….