I recall Yellow Dog, probably because of the PS3.

The big thing most people from outside the Acorn era of Arm are missing here is the Risc PC never had decent floating point support. For pure integer stuff the StrongArm upgrade was, at lauch, simply astounding, but floats . . . nope. (The StrongArm upgrade merely needed to be in the slot near the vents too, it had no active cooling or even a serious heatsink).

Oddly the later lower end A7000 came in a A7000+ variant which did have an FPU, probably because Arm needed to test their FPU out somewhere.

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regularfry 3 days ago | parent [-]

Wasn't that one of the main reasons to get the 486 coprocessor?

	▲	fidotron 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		The main reason was to run Windows (3.1) inside a window on Risc OS in parallel. You could copy/paste between them too iirc. Use of floating point code from Risc OS was so non-uniform (i.e. the culture was rolling your own fixed point code) that any attempt to speed that up via offloading to another type of CPU would have only worked for a specific configuration of everything. The x86 cards available weren't exactly speed demons either. At one time there was a lot more community excitement about shoving many Arms on a single board, or a DSP, but the StrongArm upgrade was already fast enough to oversaturate the bus making such a thing pointless. Around this time Win95 overtook Risc OS in terms of realistic UX/cost as well. With hindsight the Risc PC existed so there was an upgrade path for people from the Archimedes for particular software before ports of that to PCs were completed. e.g. Sibelius. Acorn knew they didn't have a chance.