For many years now Big Ben Club has centred its activities around the RISC OS operating system. RISC OS was developed in the UK in the nineties as a tool for home computers with ARM-processors and attached hardware, these being first introduced in the same period. RISC OS has proven to be a fast and comfortable software package for the low-energy ARM-computers.

While ARM-processors have conquered the world, ARM-powered desktop computers were less succesfull. In the first decade of our century production came to a halt.

And RISC OS? By now it is an open source operating system, still under promising further development. Variants have been adapted for recent equipment, while in ARM-powered hardware the special qualities come out best. Prominent among popular hardware that accomodates this nice OS is the space saving Raspberry Pi. And it's quite affordable too!