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- From: thughes@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Tom Hughes)
- Subject: Re: Acorn news release: Advance
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.112418.11372@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- 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 1993 11:24:18 GMT
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- In article <1jovi8INN1cr@oak42.doc.ic.ac.uk> ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
- >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.
-
- There are some significant differences between 3.00 and 3.10 certainly
- (for example the validation string for 3D icons). I believe Acorn's
- official line is that all A5000 owners should upgrade to 3.10 and that
- software houses may assume that people either have 2.xx or 3.10, and
- ignore 3.00.
-
- >One thing I'd like to know is when am I get my RO3.1 upgrade, I'm
- >still waiting due to Acorn's total lack of enthusiasm for producing
- >A5000 upgrades :-( Quite why this should be so, because RO3.1 for
- >other computers have been in abundance for ages (since the Acorn User
- >show) and it's not as if there could be something which needs to be
- >produced for the A5000 upgrades holding them up, which is not needed
- >for the other version.
-
- As Simon has commented, you may find that other dealers have them. I
- certainly had no trouble getting mine last October (the first dealer I
- phoned, Dabs, had them in stock). I would also agree with Simons
- comment about being patient and seeing what happens.
-
- Tom.
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