The all day events tend to be a bit more structured but there are still opportunities for general discussion amongst the attendees so if there is something you'd like to talk about let me know and I'll make sure everyone knows about it.
Paul Fellows preview
The story of my work with Acornsoft and Sphinx and everything else I did has an interesting thread to it. I became interested in computers and then soon in text-parsers which of course Sphinx emerged from work on the processing of textual input. I wrote that while at university as was the case for my next project which was a pascal compiler for the Beeb which Acornsoft also bought from me... bits of Sphinx carried over into it ... likewise I wrote Acornsoft database around a pattern matching algorithm from Sphinx...
Acornsoft hired me ex-university and immediately put me in charge of computer languages. Most of those went into roms. And languages got broadened to include the terminal emulator and basic editor which were “utilities” not just languages.
I read in the BBC user guide that some VDU commands were “reserved for the graphics extension rom” ... and on investigation I found that not such thing existed in Acorn other than a few loose ideas. So decided we would develop it and pulled the people together who had ideas and made it happen. It was adopted into the BBC Master OS and released for that and simultaneously as a rom to add the capabilities to the B and B+ machines. Having done so that put me and my team on the radar of management and when they found the need for “Arthur” to be developed, they came knocking.
There was also BAS64, a version of BASIC which ran on the B+128 and Master that I dreamt up which inverted the memory map and allowed sideways RAM to support BASIC programs up to a full 64k in size. That too was something that got us noticed
I [will also cover] my post RISC OS activities which are not widely known. In particular Jonathan Griffith (Snapper, Rocket Raid etc) and I re-built an embedded Operating systems that is the son-of-RiscOS which we used in the set top boxes that my company called Amino produced and sold world wide (around five million units) making it more widely sold than the beebOS which was its great grandfather.
And then later in another company we did it again creating a fourth incarnation for a range of zigbee sensors for home security and energy monitoring - and these ended up being deployed by British Gas - most famously in the home energy displays that they sent out to over a million customers... so again the great-grandson of the Beeb OS lives on.
Attending
- Sydney (Simon). 9am - 10pm
- danielj (Daniel). 9am - 10pm
- 0xC0DE (Kelvin). 9am - 10pm
- Pernod (Nigel). 9am - 10pm
- dp11 (Dominic). 9am - 10pm
- BigEd (Ed). 9am - 10pm
- tricky (Richard). 9am - 10pm
- spanners (David). 9am - 10pm
- daveejhitchins (Dave). 9am - 10pm
- flibble (Peter). 9am - 10pm
- helpful (Bryan). 9am - 10pm
- jgharston (Jonathan). 9am - 10pm
- SarahWalker (Sarah). 9am - 10pm
- JudgeBeeb (Robert). 9am - 10pm
- KarateEd (Ed). 9am - 10pm
- z0m8ied0g (Stephen). 9am - 10pm
- chrisn (Chris). 9am - 10pm
- billcarr2005 (Michael). 9am - 10pm
- ianSmalls (Ian). 9am - 1pm
- Snuggsy187 (Neil). 9am - 10pm
- simoni (Simon). 9am - 10pm
- oss003 (Kees). 9am - 10pm
- IanB (Ian). 9am - 10pm
- markjw (Mark). 9am - 10pm
- anightin (Andy). 9am - 10pm
- sbadger (Stewart). 9am - 10pm
- ThomasHarte (Thomas). 6pm - 10pm
- sPhilMainwaring (Phil). 9am - 10pm
- kieranhj (Kieran). 6pm - 10pm
- cjpinder (Christian). 5.45pm - 10pm
- markoceans (Mark). 1.30pm - 10pm
- MattH (Matt). 9am - 10pm
- Yrrah2 (Koen). 1.30pm - 10pm
- Biffo123 (Knut). 10.30am - 11.15am
- ChrisB (Chris). 9am - 10pm
- scarybeasts (Chris). 4pm - 10pm
- Paul Fellows. 6pm - 8pm
- Arcadian (Dave). 10am - 10pm
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Afternoon onwards
