Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!eweka.nl!hq-usenetpeers.eweka.nl!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:41:23 -0500 From: spampling Subject: Re: Alignment exception examples Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.programmer Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:13:54 +0100 Message-ID: <52a67e261bspam.pling@btinternet.com> References: <81a082e3-62c4-485d-892c-7f2b04e9b038@googlegroups.com> <1bced15b-6ff8-4bcd-8f19-93bbd3e58f06@googlegroups.com> <52a645caf8spam.pling@btinternet.com> <2118ba57-b1ca-4a22-ae0c-0c7ea693db7a@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: Pluto/2.05-a1 (RISC-OS/4.02) NewsHound/v1.50-32 Organization: Que? Orga-what Lines: 31 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-Vj3DWE78YYzVBvAnmCOLE4eBWIhAJA0ofHeHuFnqvIQUTssvclCKPv0ZPChjui0d2RLe6M2eZtRUmny!hfEoGV26FPXCLfB5I9WqE9a7sHL8Y3cF8CqBNyYjxODEAhdMceU9NUYa7h9ciTRaeKPY X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2548 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.programmer:1842 In article <2118ba57-b1ca-4a22-ae0c-0c7ea693db7a@googlegroups.com>, wrote: > On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 7:58:20 AM UTC+1, spampling wrote: > > In article <1bced15b-6ff8-4bcd-8f19-93bbd3e58f06@googlegroups.com>, > > wrote: > > > I don't think there are enough RISC OS users left to alienate the > > > returnees who buy Acorn machines on eBay. > > > > I think the more likely scenario is that the returnees buy a > > beagleboard (or successor) and load RO5.18+ to use the OS on modern > > hardware. > Would they do that if they knew that none of the software that they > nostalgically remembered would work? Well a scan of the ROOL forums suggests that they are doing. Maybe nostalgia ain't what it used to be. > > As Theo says the proposal was to include VFP emulation so that the > > functionality was there for slow old machines. > But as I pointed out, many of the "slow old machines" have an FPA that > will be sitting idle. I thought that was covered in the emulation or detect aspect. > Chris Bazley -- Steve Pampling