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In article <1992Nov5.122043.11970@waikato.ac.nz> bwc@waikato.ac.nz (Ug!) writes:
>Owen Smith writes:
>> A fix for the bug is in the pipeline.
>
>Or should that be 'a bug for the fix'? ;-}  Boy, three OS releases (2.0, 3.0,
>3.1) and Acorn *still* haven't got it right...  oh well.

I think you're being a little unfair here - RISC OS is only in it's third
release and even in the first version (2.00) there were remarkably few bugs.
Compare this with the most widely used OS at the moment (unfortunately I
mean MS-DOS )-: ) which is now in at least it's eighth version and still has
some bugs more annoying than the RISC OS3.10 ADFSBuffers bug.

Then cast your mind back three or four years to the days of MS-DOS 4.  That
was at least the seventh version of MS-DOS and it was so buggy that I know
people who actually paid extra when buying new machines just so they could
have MS-DOS 3.30 - just as buggy but at least they were known bugs!

If the exact number of versions quoted for MS-DOS is wrong, I apologies but
I'm proud to say I take no interest in what MS-DOS version is current -
though I do hear rumours from friends that MS-DOS 5 has some pretty big bugs
left in it....

It might also be worth pointing out that RISC OS is now in it's FOURTH
version - not counting Arthur, RISC OS 2.00, 2.01, 3.00 and 3.10 have all
been officially released.  

>Welcome back, Owen!

Seconded.

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