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Pete Goodwin (goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com) wrote in comp.sys.acorn.advocacy:
> 
> I've been talking about the module called TaskWindow. It does preemptive
> multitasking on the desktop. !Edit, !SrcEdit, !AMU etc. all use it to run their
> non-multitasking applications on the desktop.
> 
> The version of the module called Task on RISC OS 2 is a more limited version.
> The version supplied with the ANSI C Release 4 package and RISC OS 3.1 is the
> full blown version, with message support.
> 
> !Edit runs as one task, the application running under taskwindows is in another
> task. Via the TaskWindow module, !Edit gets stdin and stdout redirected to it.
> The application in the Taskwindow module does NOT run as part of !Edit.

They should absolutely release the FrontEnd and TAskWindow to public
domain. Sometime we anyway fork real money for RISC OS 3 uppgrade. Does
Acorn plan to take dirty licence money from all hard working serious
application writers by forcing them pay for what substantial part of
their customers don't anymore need after their uppgrade to RISC OS 3,
and worse versions in that (RISC OS Outline font manager and
MessageTrans, CLib, FPEmulator ...) !! Why not give RISC OS 2 users the
newest versions. Isn't loss of RAM enough punishment for things in ROM
in RISC OS 3 to get people slowly moving to RISC OS 3  ( 80 % in 6
months?) 
 
> 
> Hope this makes it cleared!


It is not right that Acorn does not show more compassion on especially
us old faithfull A310M+Arthur buyers.

Take please note off kind of customer support Sun and Apple gives!!

They offer uppgrades at much lowered prices for old owners in form of
motherboard swap. I want A540 motherboard, for example to my A310, if
they are so same format as they look like. Probably there would be som
minor differences, but not many. That is my idea of proper "carrier
board for RISC OS 3.

If we not get this system uppgrade policy quick (< 3 months), then other
possibility would be an ARM 60 @ 32 MHz + MEMC1a upgrade + SIMM soccets
for say 64 MByte 16 MHz RAM + ROM, MEMC and FPU sockets + A5000 PC
multifunction interface for bidirectional parallel, fast serial and HD
floppy + IDE.  Could the old motherboard RAM + MEMC1a uppgrade still
function in the MEMC1a chain to make 8 MB of RAM with just 4 MB SIMM in
my 4 MB A310 ("A340") ?

(Mayby eaven OWN GRAPHICS ACCELLERATOR DAUGHTER BOARD SOCCET! ( Read
about still not quite RISC OS ARM 3 based accellerator from Archive,
real interesting! CC also made accellerator? How about a "Local Buss"
one?? Should make very nice machine)

Trouble is that this practically comes to complete motherboard anyway. 
Is podule interface easy to reverce engineer, so that we could get third
party option for Acorn offerings.  I know that RISC OS licence
conditions state the use only in their machines, but returning the
mother board and getting new motherboard + certificate of return/destruction
of old board could be enough to transfer the license to replacement board.
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