[softwarelist] Re: 32-bit OPro applets.
- From: Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:43:58 GMT
On 4 Nov 2014 David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> On 04/11/2014 12:21, Peter Young wrote:
>> On 4 Nov 2014 Colin Ferris <cferris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> It would be handy for people with problems - to have copy of 'where'
>>> installed in '!Boot.Library' - downloadable from Druck's web site.
>> Yes, I usually do this, but it's not a lot of help when the machine
>> locks up!
> Colin's suggestions are helpful, I'd forgotten the command. As to lock
> ups. It depends, if one app is hogging polling, then ISTR they
> introduced a keypress (Alt + break?) to get out of it.
That one doesn't work when I get the lock-ups. The only thing I can do
is to turn off.
> If the whole machine is stiffed, that is more difficult.
> Usually bugs can be found. But at the moment, I'm thinking, what
> machine, which version of RISC OS, what else is running [1].
Yes, my problems only happen when I'm using two programs at the same
time. It happened this morning when I ran NetSurf while OPro was on
the icon bar.
> The worst scenario, is that OP damages the insides of RISC OS in a
> random way and then other things crash. Has anyone produced something to
> temporarily protect the RISC OS memory area.
Not that I know of.
> I was wistfully speculating what the originators of RISC OS might have
> produced by now if they'd been allowed to continue - one thing an
> operating system that could not be stiffed by rogue applications...
> [1] definitely nothing that requires address alignment exceptions
> turning off.
Best wishes,
Peter.
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