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- From: DWallin@acorn.co.uk (Dick Wallin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: RISCOS 3.1, the final conclusions..
- Message-ID: <18502@acorn.co.uk>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 14:37:16 GMT
- References: <1992Sep11.124008.22633@rdg.dec.com>
- Sender: dwallin@acorn.co.uk
- Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England
- Lines: 56
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- In article <1992Sep11.124008.22633@rdg.dec.com> goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com (Pete Goodwin) writes:
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- >
- >In article <1992Sep11.090616.7812@utwente.nl>, loek@pico8.nt.el.utwente.nl (Loek L. Frederiks) writes...
- >
- >>- 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.
- >
-
- There are 12 fonts in the RISC OS 3.10 ROM (as there were in RISC OS 3.00)
-
- These are:
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- Corpus
- Corpus.Bold
- Corpus.Medium.Oblique
- Corpus.Bold.Oblique
- Homerton Homerton.Bold
- Homerton.Medium.Oblique
- Homerton.Bold.Oblique
- Trinity Trinity.Bold
- Trinity.Medium.Italic
- Trinity.Bold.Italic
-
- Where you might be going wrong is in only considering the Font *FAMILIES* of which there
- are three, namely Corpus, Homerton and Trinity.
-
- >>Lots of stuff deleted
- >
- >That's funny, formatting was multitasking. Even on an ARM2 it was never that
- >slow.
- >
-
- Formatting was NOT multitasking on RISC OS 2 but WAS multitasking on RISC OS
- 3.00 and as you correctly point out was/is not 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'.
- >
-
- I think you misunderstood: he means that in *speed terms* nothing has changed
- a lot: see previous postings from outside Acorn for confirmation.
-
- >Now if only I could work out why my SCSI has stopped working (whimper).
-
- I must sympathise; when my card went down I did miss it rather a lot!
-