[softwarelist] Re: Ovation Pro new version 5th. January 2010

  • From: Ross McGuinness <farmstay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:41:46 +0800

In message <hL9C71BSGbULFwDb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <50da7c98cdchris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Johnson
> <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>>... or an Iyonix without a fix for the RTC date bug!

> An Iyonix. I did change the clock because it looked to be a few days
> out.

> The problem is if you get some time stamps wrong then programmers tools
> like make are likely to go wrong - so you fix a bug and the compiler
> never runs to fix the !RunImage.

> I know nothing of the RTC date bug. I rarely turn the machine on, and I
> suppose it is now old - 7 or 8 years?, amazing.

Is there an Iyonix fix for the RTC date bug?


> This makes me wonder if the best policy would be to say "no more
> hardware support - i.e. scanner drivers" and shift everything to VRPC. I
> say that because if the Iyonix falls over it will take all the RISC OS
> source code with it.





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