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Arthur is an early Graphical User Interface (GUI) Operating System (OS) that was used on Acorn ARM - Cpu -based computers from about 1987 until the much-superior RISC OS 2 was completed and made available in April 1989 . It was the operating system of the earliest Archimedes ARM machines. The desktop is very primitive. It features a colour-scheme typically described as " Technicolour ". Its earlier revisions were very Buggy , and was only really meant to be a placeholder until RISC OS 2 (a name chosen instead of Arthur 2) was completed. The "Arthur" name was supposedly dropped from version 2 because of the release at the time of a movie called '. Arthur is said to stand for "A R'''isc-based operating system by '''THUR'''sday". Supposedly Arthur was put together in break-neck speed because a revolutionary operating system they had under development ( ARX ) wasn't going to be ready in time. Most software made for Arthur can be run under RISC OS. A few titles will not work, however. EXTERNAL LINKS
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