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From: OSmith@acorn.co.uk (Owen Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: RISC-OS 3
Message-ID: <4710@acorn.co.uk>
Date: 15 Jan 91 18:18:32 GMT
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In article <6615@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> jhma@ukc.ac.uk (J.H.M.Aldridge) writes:

>RISC-OS  3 officially "does not exist".  It "does not contain" fixes to
>some of the annoying bugs in the current version of risc-os.  It "does
>not" , for example, allow !Edit to work if you have a large number of
>fonts in your !Fonts directory.   !Draw "has not" been extended to include
>lots of nice nice new features.   You "can't" do things like set off large
>file copies in the background while you get on with something else.
>
>Unfortunately, though it "doesn't exist", it only leaves a small amount of
>memory for applications in its current "non-existent", ram-based form so
>is unusable on anything less than a 440 (if it "existed").

If it existed, which it doesn't, the EPROM version, which doesn't exist,
would work fine on a 1 MB machine.

Owen.


Nuke 'em 'til they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark!