[comp.sys.acorn] RISC OS 3.00

jhb@neabbs.UUCP (JAN-HERMAN BUINING) (01/26/91)

Recently there's been a lot of talk about a new RISC OS version, I can
tell you this:
 
To my knowledge there are two 'beta-test' versions of this new
release, know by the version numbers of the desktop module (2.07 &
2.22). Both these versions allow multi-tasking disc-access for all
applications which use the standard filer protocol (i.e. downward
compatible). The latter version has some major additions over the
first, these are: Shared C Library with an included RISC OS Lib, major
applications like !Edit, !Paint, !Draw, some fonts, tinydirs etc.
included in rom (they all take very little, say 60K) of workspace.
I can't tell you when, and if, this new RISC OS will be released, but
I must say this: Acorn have done a great job of keeping it compatible
with the 2.00 version, all programs known to me work with these newer
versions, and indeed have multi-tasking file access, with the
exception of communication programs like arcterm and hearsay, although
this seems to be caused be the SharedCLibrary, not the OS itself.
Acorn indeed has done a great job with this OS, it finally seems to be
finished.....