Comment by masfuerte
1 day ago
RISC OS (1987) had built-in support for anti-aliased vector fonts, though they aren't shown in the screenshot. The OS was in ROM and had insufficient space for the actual fonts so they needed to be loaded from disk. This was fine if you had a hard disk but a pita with floppies.
Need to find the time to try that out on a Raspberry Pi....
You really do. It is pretty much a work of art.
I have tried to persuade people a few times now. This may amuse.
2022:
https://www.theregister.com/software/2022/06/21/risc-os-is-3...
2024:
https://www.theregister.com/software/2024/05/02/risc-os-open...
I wish I could get the senior GNOME team to use RISC OS for a while. It is so very visible that GNOME >= 3.x is a Windows copy with things removed and re-arranged, because that's all anyone on board has seen or knows.
For me, my high-water mark for GUI experience/consistency was using Go Corp.'s PenPoint OS on an NCR-3125 when mobile, and a NeXT Cube (w/ a Wacom ArtZ) when at my desk --- nothing since has been as nice and consistent and reliable.