Re: Thanks for Help ! and some new ?'s

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From: Simon Burrows
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 10:07

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In article <3kU6aLj027n@khantazi.welly.gen.nz> banks_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>   Fascinating. The A4 ROM set has v3.07 of the FontManager in it. But then
>as the A4 ROMs had to be blown seperately, due to the fact that there appear
>to be only two ROMs in the machine rather than the usual four, I am not
>surprised that it has slightly newer versions of things.
>
>   However most of the four chip ROMs would have been blown in bulk
>manufacture and I would expect the versions number to be constant... Unless
>extension ROMs are fitted to load the newer versions...

I've a feeling that this discussion arises from the fact that there have
been many copies of RISC OS 3.10 issued in EPROM, long before the ROMs were
issued, and quite possibly these had different versions of Font Manager.

Simon
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From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
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Subject: Re: Thanks for Help ! and some new ?'s
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