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- From: goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com (Pete Goodwin)
- Subject: Re: RISCOS 3.1, the final conclusions..
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.124008.22633@rdg.dec.com>
- Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 12:36:40 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <1992Sep11.090616.7812@utwente.nl>, loek@pico8.nt.el.utwente.nl (Loek L. Frederiks) writes...
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- >- If you are using outline fonts, things go much faster. Acorn please
- > confirm has RISCOS 3.1 12 built-in fonts (RISCOS 3.0 contained only
- > 3 fonts).
-
- In my version of 3.1, there are three fonts: Corpus, Trinity and, um, Homerton?
- System was also there as well. The other fonts were on disk.
-
- >- If you accessing files or doing some other filesystem tasks, the filer
- > gets high priority. On ARM2/RISCOS2 machines you had to wait till your
- > drive had done the job, so I think ARM2 users will still wait till the
- > filer has completed its task. If you are formatting a floppy, and moving
- > some windows in the desktop at the same time, I think you drink a cup
- > of coffee and just sit and wait. To be honest, you can always turn the
- > multi-tasking filer off. Besides, this I think that ARM2 users are no
- > "power users". Thus while their files are saved, they already doing
- > some other desktop job. Power users are always in a hurry ? Has somebody
- > tried to use a soundtracker program (ProTrack) and to format a floppy at
- > the same time ?
-
- That's funny, formatting was multitasking. Even on an ARM2 it was never that
- slow.
-
- >To my opinion, nothing has changed a lot. The only difference is that application
- >writers have to be carefull when writing their code. Make things always as
- >fast as possible and don't use clumsy constructions.
-
- From RISC OS 3.0 maybe! For me, with RISC OS 2 it's a helluva difference. I
- like the multitasking filer/formatter. I like the Pinboard. I like the
- extensions to the filer menu - and don't forget, if multitasking filing
- operations are too slow for you, you can click on menu and select 'Faster'.
-
- Now if only I could work out why my SCSI has stopped working (whimper).
-
- Pete Goodwin
- goodwin@system.enet.dec.com
-