Re: So long and thanks for all the fish.

In message <0408fbcc4e.druck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
druck <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2 Apr 2007 John Cartmell <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <31e4f5cc4e.druck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, druck
<news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Either you prove your case or stop accusing people of lying, which is
likely to prove very costly.

You have asked for the whole truth to be put on the table. I can assure you
that you couldn't cope with it. You appear to be living in a world entirely
formed by your unsubstantiated opinion built entirely by your repeatedly
chanting that opinion. It is full of holes. I have been asked not to
demolish your arguments entirely because the resulting fracas would be very
damaging to the market - but there must come a time when your repeated
false comments could destroy the market anyway.

You have been told the truth. You are accusing and threatening people who
are simply trying to correct your false statements. I had given up for me -
but you are now turning on others. I am publicly and loudly telling you
that you do yourself and the market no good. Will someone who can persuade
David to see sense make that clear to him?

And still you cannot offer a single shred of evidence to support your
position, thats rather telling isn't it.

The following are examples from the RISC OS 6 website:

Video
The management of video within RISC OS 6 has changed significantly.
Most graphics primitives may be accelerated by hardware, and many
operations have been changed slightly because of this. The Video
Drivers can now support multiple display devices. For example a
current machine may have both the standard VIDC based Video Display
and a Viewfinder Graphics card. At present only one display can be
active, VIDC in the case of the RISC OS 6 Select 4 Preview, though
work is being done to support multiple graphics cards and to support
features not previously seen on RISC OS, such as Screen Rotation to
support Portrait Mode displays.

Memory management
With the introduction of multiple display drivers, the concept of a
single 'screen memory' area is obsolete. This means that the dynamic
area, previously allocated to the screen memory, is no longer used. In
order that clients which merely check this value do not fail however,
the area is provided by the LegacyScreen module. The content of this
area and its size have no relationship to the video system and are
merely provided to ensure that applications which attempt to check
video size by using this area do not fail immediately.

Screen banks
Because memory management for video drivers may not be related to the
total memory available to the video drivers it is not sufficient to
read the total size of the video memory and divide by the screen size
to obtain the number of screen banks. New OS_ScreenMode reason codes
have been created to ensure that these operations can be performed
reliably within the constraints of the driver.

Networking
The Internet stack and related components have undergone a number of
changes in order to address problems and provide new features to
developers and, ultimately, users. The primary improvements have been
the addition of new modules for particular Internet facilities -
RouterDiscovery, InternetTime and ResolverMDNS. Internet now supports
multicast filtering for drivers.

Resolver has been updated to address significant issues with its
implementation of expiry and now provides DCI4 statistics. The Network
Configuration Tool has new options for Auto-Configuration if Static,
AUN, or Dymanic are selected. DNS now has an Auto Detect Option and
Gateway has an Auto Detect Option. These are especially useful for use
in networks where the DNS entries and Gateway Address can be detected.

ZeroConf
which implements automatic network configuration using the Link-Local
addressing protocol.

RouterDiscovery
which supports automatic gateway discovery using the ICMP router
discoveryprotocol.

Keyboard and Mice
In addition to the standard 3 button mice, up to 8 buttons are
supported by the OSPointer module. 5 button mice are common and the PS
2 driver has been updated to support such devices. This includes
support for Intellimouse and Intellimouse Pro.

Multimedia Keyboard features
International Keyboard now generates different codes for left and
right Meta keys. This is in order to provide greater compatibilty with
the RISC OS 5 change to the design. Since RISC OS 4 a number of
additional keys have been returned by the keyboard drivers, though it
is up to other applications to utilise these keys. These keys are:

Windows left
Windows right
Menu
No convert
Convert
Kana
Yen/Bar
\ _
ASPI Power
ASPI Sleep
ASPI Wake
Scan next track
Scan previous track
Stop
Play/pause
Mute
Vol+
Vol-
Media select
Mail
Calculator
My computer
Browser search
Browser home
Browser back
Browser forward
Browser stop
Browser refresh
Browser favourites

The above are just some of the changes and improvements from a quick
scan of the end user changes.

--
Chris Hughes
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