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- From: goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com (Pete Goodwin)
- Subject: Re: RISCOS 3.1, the final conclusions..
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.154940.28612@rdg.dec.com>
- Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:47:20 GMT
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- In article <18502@acorn.co.uk>, DWallin@acorn.co.uk (Dick Wallin) writes...
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- >There are 12 fonts in the RISC OS 3.10 ROM (as there were in RISC OS 3.00)
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- Sorry I meant there were three font GROUPS not 12 fonts (in three groups as you
- correctly point out!).
-
- >>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.
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- There was an application that did formatting on the desktop on RO2. It's not as
- neat as the built in one on 3.1
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- >>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!
-
- Mine's a Morley controller - I'm trying to work out if there's a problem with
- their software and 3.1 or the ARM3 upgrade I did at the same time... or my
- drive died the same time we did the upgrade (unlikely!).
-
- Pete Goodwin
- goodwin@system.enet.dec.com
-