Re: Got to laugh

In article <43930300.44604328@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Don Pearce
<donald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I use Firefox - haven't used IE for quite a while now. What's the
> situation for spreadsheets, though?

I use 'Pipedream' for that. But TBH for most data processing I tend to
write progs in ANSI C or C++. (There are both commercial and GNU compliers
for these.)



> I've been reading up a bit, and I gather that applications don't get
> installed in the Windows sense, merely copied to an appropriate
> directory, so if you want to remove them, simple deletion does the
> trick. Is that really how it is?

Basically, yes. Some apps store 'settings' in a seperate directory
(folder). But they also get put into clearly named subdirectories so can be
deleted just as easily. Hence the situation is far simpler and clearer than
the Windows approach.

> And of course it seems that more and more places that supported Risc OS
> are sort of shutting down. How long is this going to remain a viable
> system?

People have been asking that for many years. Yet new machines continue to
appear, and software gets updated/developed, etc... :-)

The systems I use have remained 'viable' as they do what I want, and tend
to show much longer usable lives that Windows users will tend to expect.
There remain a solid core of people who develop software and hardware for
RO machines.

FWIW The mains companies who work in this area also get income from being
able to develop ARM hardware and software for use in all the 'embedded'
applications of the chip family. e.g one of the main commerial browser
vendors for RO desktop machines get most of their income from software (inc
versions of the browser) for non-desktop devices.

Slainte,

Jim

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