[Virtualacorn-list] VA and ROOL 5.nn

charles charles at charleshope.demon.co.uk
Thu Sep 12 09:30:29 BST 2013


On 12 Sep, David Pitt <pittdj at pittdj.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <5389a63980dave at triffid.co.uk>
>   Dave Symes <dave at triffid.co.uk> wrote:

> > Not sure why anyone would want to substitite 6.20 on a VRPC install
> > with retro ROOL 5.20/21 but there you go, a friend has asked, and I
> > don't know the answer.

> It it were possible then it is just a decision, which bunch of 
> facilities does one prefer and is any 26bit only needed.

> We are where we are, there are two forks, there have been two forks 
> for some years now and there will probably continue to be two forks in 
> the future. I can't be bothered with all that anymore but I do have 
> choices.

> I cannot think of any compelling reason why one would want to run 5.20 
> in preference to 6.20 on VRPC.

perhaps to use the same OS on two different machines allow. If you take a
file created on one machine and can't handle it on the other, that is a
serious problem.

-- 
>From KT24 

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18 





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