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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!nott-cs!smb
- From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
- Subject: Re: Acorn news release: Advance
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.105332.3726@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Organization: Nottingham University
- References: <1993Jan22.121746.19679@cs.nott.ac.uk> <1993Jan22.132034.21810@cs.nott.ac.uk> <1jovi8INN1cr@oak42.doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 10:53:32 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1jovi8INN1cr@oak42.doc.ic.ac.uk> ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan22.132034.21810@cs.nott.ac.uk> smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows) writes:
- >>
- >>It sounds more like the person who wrote the news release got their
- >>terminology wrong. It would be a major development if each set of
- >>ROMS had a unique ID number - but then, what about users of older
- >>versions of RISC OS?
- >>
- >
- >The leaflet for Acorn Advance states that it requires Risc-OS 3
- >(version 3.1 or later). Thus this wouldn't be a problem.
-
- I was talking generally (ie not just about Advance) - thus it would
- be a problem.
-
- >What I find odd is that several Acorn releases of late state that they
- >require Risc-OS 3 (version 3.1 or later). This would suggest that
- >Acorn have stoppped supporting RO2 wholesale, and also that there must
- >be some big difference between RO3.00 and RO3.1.
-
- At some stage Acorn has got to stop supporting RISC OS 2 in new software
- releases if good use is to be made of the extra functionality in RISC OS 3.
- RISC OS 3.00 was an interim release - almost a stopgap measure - and I reckon
- that anyone with this version would be well advised to pay the extra #20 to
- get the upgrade.
-
- Simon
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