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RISC OS 3.10

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From: Simon Burrows
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 18:50
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Two observations from using RISC OS 3.10 on my A440/1:

1) When I switch on, a huge blue floppy disc is displayed on screen, with
what looks like a !System folder icon on it. Also the bottom few pixels
of the picture look to be corrupted. What is this for? It waits for a key
press before booting, but does not appear to do anything. I can only
guess that it is a prompt to insert a System disc. No modules are unplugged,
so I assume that it is caused by an undocumented CMOS bit. I could do
a power on reset, but I would prefer to know what it is for and what 
caused its sudden appearance.

2) Occasionally (3 times so far) I have been going about my business in
the desktop, when I have got the error "!!! CAM Map Corrupt!!!" (note
the exclamation marks), which promptly kills the task manager. Any
clues to what causes these would be much appreciated.

Simon.
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From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
Subject: RISC OS 3.10
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Organization: Nottingham University
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 18:50:31 GMT
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