HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sproven@cs.strath.ac.uk (Simon B Proven IE91)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: New Acorn Kit out today (27/08/92)
Date: 28 Aug 92 11:59:39 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, Scotland.

In article <1992Aug28.095612.3481@cs.hw.ac.uk> neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite) writes:
>If that was me, I'd be fairly pissed off. As would recent A5000 buyers when
>they hear of the #100 UKpounds reduction (not before time and not enough
>of a price cut, though in the right direction).

I was talking to an Acorn dealer who was discussing Commodore's policy on
such matters, such as the Amiga500->600 change.  Commodore don't bother
to tell dealers about new machines, they just announce them, drop the
old model, and expect dealers to continue selling the A600 quite happily.

The dealer called this "Frightening"

Why?  Well, having 20-30 machines in stock, in a fairly small dealership,
when suddenly you find yourself having to slash #100 off the machine
to sell it.  Suddenly, you're selling machines at cost, or at a loss
(margins on the A500 can't be huge).  Plus there's overheads, wages
to pay, etc.

This Commodore policy sucks - it does the customer no more good than
Acorn's policy, and it is very likely to kill off a few dealers at
every new product launch.

The dealer doesn't like selling Amigas, but *has* to because they're
them machines that sell.

>Neil

mad@bike
From: sks@cs.man.ac.uk (Steve Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: VIRUS (Authorities ?)y
Date: 25 Aug 92 09:03:51 GMT
Reply-To: sks@fiveg.icl.co.uk (Steve Smith)

On the subject of viruses...

Ok this has probably been thought of loads of times before even implemented but...

My friend and I thought ...

What if someone were to write an anti-virus virus. (very old)
Not an innoculator against 1 particular virus but something like Protector that looks for strange writes to disk, lengthening of files etc and gives the user a warning. But unlike Protector and other such virus checkers is actually a virus so you don't install it yourself and it spreads around the world copying itself and hopefully protecting your machine!

This would have to be a secret thing (if only because viruses are illegal) so that virus writers would not easily be able to just keep getting the latest version and getting round it.

anyone?
No I'm not writing it I don't know how!

SteeeveS

P.S. Punishment for virus writers ... make them use an Atari ST with the SEKA assembler.



Disclaimer:- they're all my views OK noone elses so nair!




From :- sks@fiveg.icl.co.uk (Steve Smith)
From: torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Acorn Press Release 6 of 8 (A3000 range)
Date: 4 Sep 92 08:01:05 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

jbiggs@armltd.uucp (John Biggs) writes:

>torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen) writes:

>>A good (and not unrealistic?) solution would be a single chip with an
>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>ARM 3 equivalent, write buffer (as on the ARM 600), controller chips
>>and FPU, clocked around 40 MHz. Improved versions of VIDC and MEMC
>>would be handy, but they may be hard to use without modifying larger
>>portions of the software and hardware. I don't think Acorn will use
>>MEMC 2. A more realistic solution would be something closer to MEMC 1a,
>>but using a two level page table similar to MEMC 2.

>Might as well put a keyboard on the same die too, it'll be big enough!!

Since you are from ARM Ltd. I assume that you know what you are
talking about. Can't harm to do a little wishful thinking though ;-).

My reasons for thinking this not entirely unrealistic is that other
manufacturers have made single chip processors containing a number of
gates that I would think (not knowing the size of your FPU) exceeds
that of the suggested chip. Comparing with the ARM 600, a simpler MEMC
could save some area. The VIDC etc. are not huge, my guess is that
they are similar to an ARM 2 in size, or even smaller. So adding these
would "only" double the size, or less. The major unknown is the FPU.
But even without this, an ARM 3 equivalent that can replace the
ARM 250 would be nice for upgrading the new machines.

Also, 40 MHz seems not unrealistic, seeing that the early ARM 3s ran
at 30 MHz (with samples going up to 36 MHz). And that was several
years ago.

A major problem with a large combined chip could be yield, though.
Bad yield would tend to increase price. I heard that the reason for
changing the ARM 3 to run only 25 MHz was bad yield.

	Torben Mogensen (torbenm@diku.dk)
From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Archie to DOS connection
Date: 30 Aug 92 18:49:49 GMT
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.

In article <1992Aug30.094109.8027@brt.deakin.edu.au> gjocc@brt.deakin.edu.au writes:
:I would like to network my A5000 and PC clone together in some fashion.
:
:I am running OS/2 2.0 on the PC and would like to file serve the A5000.
:
:One solution would be an ethernet card in each machine and run Acorns
:TCP/IP stuff and IBMs TCP/IP stuff respectively.
:
:The cost of the software and hardware to do this seems to be a little bit
:expensive.

How expensive?  Aren't PC ether cards around seventy quid?  That's
what I use, with SOSS (Stan's Own Server) - a PD NFS server - on the
DOS end.  If it's just file transfer you want, any of the free ftp's
would do too.

G
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From: merlin@maths.tcd.ie (Merlin Hughes)
Subject: Internationalisation
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 03:44:13 GMT

If we are to have support for multiple languages in a certain
forthcoming product, what should we use to determine the country?

1) User is asked when they first run the game. This is saved, but
    can be changed later by selecting an option somewhere.
2) Defaults to configured country. This can again be changed, by
    selecting the aformentioned option.

Then, what languages should we support? Due to limited resources
we will only be able to support a subset of the global languages.
What are Acorn's major foreign markets?
(We'll probably do a few more countries than come with the main
release, but you'd need to ask specifically for them.)

Ta muchly,
M.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: VIRUS (Authorities ?)y
From: Gavin.Flower@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Gavin Flower)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 02:20:25 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.

In article <5896@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> sks@fiveg.icl.co.uk (Steve Smith) writes:
[...]
>What if someone were to write an anti-virus virus. (very old)
>Not an innoculator against 1 particular virus but something like Protector that looks for strange writes to disk, lengthening of files etc and gives the user a warning. But unlike Protector and other such virus checkers is actually a virus so you don't install it yourself and it spreads around the world copying itself and hopefully protecting your machine!

*Very* *dangerous*, somebody would be bound to modify it to be
malignant; also, it might meet a situation were someone was trying to
do something quite legitimate, that it objected to...

(An aside: please try to keep lines to less 73 characters, or at least
not have them wrap mid word - especially when quoted.)

[...]
>P.S. Punishment for virus writers ... make them use an Atari ST with the SEKA assembler.

A better idea!


Gavin

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: lezz@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com (Lezz Giles)
Subject: Re: RISC OS 3.10
Reply-To: lezz@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com (Lezz Giles)
Organization: Motorola Codex, Canton, MA
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:21:52 GMT


In article <1992Sep4.105812.22152@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>, charles@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Charles Loader) writes:
|>In article <9209040307.AA18976@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> lithgow@usl.com (Malcolm Lithgow) writes:
|>>I'm reading these messages of people with RO 3.10 upgrades and slowly
|>>getting greener and greener.
|>>
|>>I've already asked this once, but no-one replied so I'll try again:
|>>
|>>Can the #30 upgrades for the older machines (I have an A440) be fitted
|>>by someone other than a dealer? Can they be mail ordered? What are
|>>they? (Alternatively, does someone know of an Acorn dealer in Tokyo. ;->)
|>>
|>>Also, which is the better buy for (primarily) controlling a 200MB hard
|>>disk -- a SCSI card or an IDE card?
|>>
|>>Are there IDE cards that also have an HD floppy interface that either
|>>(a) can use the RO3.1 drivers or (b) has RO3.1 compatible drivers?
|>>
|>>I hope someone will deign to answer these simple questions this time.
|>>
|>>-Malcolm.  lithgow@usl.com  These are merely my questions.
|>
|>I (in Newfoundland) would also like to upgrade my 310 but will have to
|>stay with the present OS if it means shipping the machine to the UK or
|>to Toronto.
|>
|>How about a comment from Acorn?

I'm in New England in the USA - I also have a 310 and I also would like to
upgrade and I also would like to know if OS3.10 is in my future....

Lezz "Archie users of the world unite!" Giles
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: VIRUS (Authorities ?)y
From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 04:34:27 GMT
   <1992Aug24.164928.9467@csi.on.ca> <5896@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <2dVsj+j017n@khantazi.welly.gen.nz>
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

banksie@khantazi.welly.gen.nz (Philip R. Banks) writes:
>   The only way to stop viruses (virii?)...

I have verified this one with dictionaries - VIRUS plural is VIRUSES.
It is a word that is rooted in the latin (for poison, I think), but
it is NOT pluralisationated ;-) by making it VIRII.

This has been a public service announcement ;-)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: burke@vxdesy.desy.de
Subject: <None>
Organization: (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:14:59 GMT

You people don't know when you're well off - just try using MVS JCL for
a while, and you'll really know what cryptic means :-) Funny, most of my
colleagues think I'm a bit odd because I prefer to use a VAX rather than
an IBM running MVS/TSO ...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: WimpPoly
From: banksie@khantazi.welly.gen.nz (Philip R. Banks)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:58:20 +1200
Reply-To: banks_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: My Arc.

burke@vxdesy.desy.de writes:

> In article <2egKR7j017n@khantazi.welly.gen.nz>, banksie@khantazi.welly.gen.nz (Philip R. Banks) writes:
> > directories have garbled files. This archive is definitely becoming one of
> > the harder to obtain... :-)
> 
> Serves you right for wanting to use FORTRAN :-)

   Dang! Now my secrets out. :-) I just can't help it, FORTRAN is the
language I simply *have* to use. I have tried C, Assembler, BASIC, Pascal,
Modula 2 and even various script languages but nothing seems to satisfy the
craving.... :-) :-)

   Seriously though I want it for the NZ archive more than anything else.

    Philip

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Applications and RiscOS 3
From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 04:24:04 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

zrzm0111@helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (MUFTI) writes:

>I don't know, if this idea fits to your problem, but you can easily forbid
>to execute the commands in the bootdir:

>*if "<application$boot>"="" then execute command1 of bootdir
>*if "<application$boot>"="" then execute command2 of bootdir
>...
>...
>*if "<application$boot>"="" then execute commandN of bootdir
>*if "<application$boot>"="" then set application$boot whatever

>This sollution is not the fastest ...

Wouldn't the following be a lot better...?

  *if "application$boot>"="" then Obey <Obey$Dir>.!DoBoot

(and in "!DoBoot"):
  | all the commands originally in the !boot, and...
  *set application$boot whatever

Much tidier...
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From: aglover@acorn.co.uk (Alan Glover)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Acorn Press Release 7 of 8 (A4000 range)
Date: 27 Aug 92 10:30:51 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England

Acorn launches new A4000 

Acorn Computers is launching a new mid-range computer which
bridges the gap between the newly expanded A3000 and A5000
ranges (see separate news releases). 

Driven by the new ARM250 chip, purpose designed for Acorn by
Advanced Risc Machines Ltd, and running at 12MHz, the new
A4000 delivers 6 MIPS performance - which is 1.4 times
faster than a 33MHz 386DX.

The A4000 has 2MB of RAM expandable to 4MB on the circuit
board; VGA graphic support comes as standard, as do the wide
range of Acorn screen modes. There is a 2MB floppy disc
drive which, with RISC OS 3,  can automatically detect and
use Acorn and PC discs. Another major feature of this three
box solution is the newly restyled keyboard.

The A4000, with its industry standard 80 MB IDE hard disc,
is housed in a slimline case which complements the A5000's
styling. It has internal support for both Econet and
Ethernet without compromising the main expansion slot.

Although the A4000 can be bought on its own, it is also
available as part of a new "Home Office" system.  This pack
is targeted at the sophisticated professional user who wants
more than just a PC. It contains an A4000 system including a
monitor, an advanced wordprocessor (EasiWriter II) and
Desktop Database (together with a disc of templates).  For
those new to the Acorn RISC OS desktop interface, there is
an audio training tape; there are also blank discs included,
together with a full product directory of applications
written to run on Acorn's range of 32-bit RISC computers. 

The A4000 Home Office pack, which includes a CGA monitor,
costs #999 ex VAT. Educational institutions can also buy the
A4000 without a monitor for #899. 


Ends 

_______________________________________________________________________________

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announce-request@acorn.co.uk, other related mail to announcer@acorn.co.uk.
From: kjetilho@ifi.uio.no (Kjetil Torgrim Homme)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: OS differences and improvements (Was Re: new PC's, what's happening acorn?)
Date: 26 Aug 92 04:06:30 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Originator: kjetilho@hnoss.ifi.uio.no

In article <1992Aug25.121646.2641@rdg.dec.com> goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com (Pete Goodwin) writes:

   In article <1992Aug25.090935.12119@bnr.co.uk>, row@bnr.co.uk
   (Reuben Wells) writes...


   >Ok under C Relese 4 with all these wonderful tools tell me how I
   >can check to see if a symbol is defined in a object file ? On a
   >Unix machine I can type:
   > 
   >nm *.o | grep foo

   So what? I've never needed to see if a symbol is defined in an object file. I
   can find out symbols defined in an object library, I may even be able to do
   your example if !ObjFile (or whatever it is) shows symbols.

I would really prefer to have MSDOS' version of pipes instead of none, ie.
the OS implicitly creates a <Wimp$Scrap> file.

Personally, I think ed is great, vi is great and emacs is great. It
all depends on what you want to do. Nonetheless, StrongED II on my
Archimedes does most things I'd like to do fast and efficiently,
somewhat like vi is fast and efficient under Unix.


Kjetil T.

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From: gaspar@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: VIRUS (Authorities ?)y
Date: 1 Sep 92 12:24:44 MET
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland

In article <1992Sep1.043427.13489@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>, jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA) writes:
> banksie@khantazi.welly.gen.nz (Philip R. Banks) writes:
>>   The only way to stop viruses (virii?)...
> 
> I have verified this one with dictionaries - VIRUS plural is VIRUSES.
> It is a word that is rooted in the latin (for poison, I think), but
> it is NOT pluralisationated ;-) by making it VIRII.

Anyway, if you'd like to use the latin plural then it would be VIRI and NOT
VIRII.
 
> This has been a public service announcement ;-)
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From: osmith@acorn.co.uk (Owen Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: VIDCClock module
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:29:02 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England

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From: pdunn (Peter Dunn)
If you have a software switched VIDC Enhancer, then when you upgrade to RISC
OS 3.10 you will find my VIDCClock module extremely useful. This module
switches your VIDC speed up and down depending on what speed the RISC OS 3
kernel thinks it should be running at. You should then use A540 format mode
definitions in preference to older VIDC enhancer ones (if you use an older
module, it may fight with my software about what speed to run the VIDC at).
The biggest advantage of this (apart from it being the "right" way to do it)
is that sound will be at the correct pitch in 36 MHz modes.

VIDCClock can be obtained from Newcastle as VIDClock (note one 'C' in the
middle not two). Source code and documentation on A540 format mode
definitions is included.

This module was produced for my own needs and may not work on all
combinations of systems. This module is not produced by Acorn and is
therefore not supported by Acorn in any way.

Owen.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com (Pete Goodwin)
Subject: Re: OS differences and improvements (Was Re: new PC's, what's happening acorn?)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 07:39:33 GMT


In article <1992Sep01.215752.8695@microsoft.com>, t-piersh@microsoft.com (Piers Haken) writes...

>The point is that english words can have other meanings and it can take
>longer for your brain to map from name to function (or visa versa) if
>it has more than one 'symbol' for each word. For example (okay, so this
>is a little contrived) if someone comes up to you in the street and says
>"grep" or "ls" to you you'd know exactly what he was talking about
>(assuming you'd used these commands before). However, if he said "search"
>or "list" you be slightly less sure about his mental health. The idea
>is that "grep" (for example) performs one distinct function, as does
>the command it describes.

Granted english words can be ambiguous, I still find DIRECTORY or SEARCH a bit
more obvious at first glance than ls or grep.

>If you're stuck for the name of a command, use the apropos command.
>And if you don't like the fact that you have to know a silly name like
>"apropos" to start with do "man man".

Compared to VMS HELP, man is prehistoric. apropos is a nice well known word,
isn't it! What's wrong with HELP SEARCH!

Help in RISCOS is !Help. Applications broadcast help messages which get
displayed in a window. There isn't a system utility that does help though, and
there a lots of PD applications stepping in to fill the gap.

Pete Goodwin
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From: r_voisey@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (R Voisey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: New Acorn Kit out today (27/08/92)
Date: 27 Aug 92 23:50:38 GMT
Organization: Bristol Polytechnic, England

In article <u894776.714918231@bruny> u894776@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (James McCoull) writes:
>	This I take it means the '250 has 6 bit DACs for R, G, B, and has
>at least 256 colour registers --> Very good news indeed.  Can anyone verify
>this for me?

As far as I've been able to ascertain the ARM250 contains bog standard
implementations of the ARM-2 chipset.  This implies that the palette handling
it identical to existing machines..

When they say VGA I think they mean 'very nearly VGA, but with a slight cock-up
on the palette front' ..

Bob

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From: ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Acorn's New Babies
Date: 3 Sep 92 09:36:29 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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In article <JRG.92Sep1145632@crane.doc.ic.ac.uk> jrg@doc.ic.ac.uk (James Grinter) writes:
>
>On a slightly angle, it really is silly of Acorn to drop the
>Archimedes and start refering to A this and A that, because the US
>market knows the A3000 as the name for an Amiga, and will become very
>confused (if they aren't already). It also leads to sillyness in
>product packaging, with things like "for Archimedes and A3000" when
>they're basically the same thing, and Acorn User who dropped the Atom
>from their masthead, and put both Archimedes and A3000.
>
>James

I'd been pondering over this subject recently. What is the 'official'
title for the A... A.... range of computers that Acorn make. You can't
use Archimedes, as these are now all out of production, and 'Acorn
computers' (or similar) does not do either as it includes the Master
at. al. which you may not want to cover in the description. The only
term that really fits (and then only just, if you close your eyes
tight enough and stop thinking about it) is Risc-OS computer. 

But what is the 'official' term. I noted that (I think it was in The
Micro User (soon to be Acorn something-or-other) that Acorn's line was
the Archimedes was an acceptable 'catch' name, but what is the
official 'catch' name, something like "Archimedes-BBC A3000-Acorn A####"
computers???

Ian

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From: cstevens@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: ARM clock speed
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:21:40 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

Hi , anyone know the clock spped on an ARM2? what is it on the ARM3 and how
fast is the IO BUS?
Thanks in advance
Chris Stevens
CSTEVENS@UK.AC.OX.VAX