30 Years up in ARMs @ ROUGOL, Mon 16th April 2018
Bryan Hogan (339) 589 posts |
The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be: 30 Years up in ARMs – Presented by Clive Semmens Monday 16th April 2018, 7:45pm The Blue-Eyed Maid (upstairs in the restaurant) http://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/ This month we will be welcoming Clive Semmens as our guest speaker, who will be talking about his 30 years of working and playing with ARM processors. Starting from when he purchased an Archimedes computer for a classroom in Stornoway, all the way up to the present day still using them in retirement, writing programs for RISC OS such as his Draw to SVG converter, and now a regular contributor on the RISC OS Open forums. In the middle of that long period, Clive spent ten years working at ARM, where he was the senior technical author on the ARM ARM, that is the ARM Architecture Reference Manual. Clive is happy to answer questions about this and any other aspects of his 30 years up in ARMs! Entry to ROUGOL meetings is free, food & drink plentiful (but not free), and all are welcome. |
Alan Robertson (52) 420 posts |
Question for Clive: |
Clive Semmens (2335) 3276 posts |
Probably a few, but I don’t know. I knew a couple of other people who used it, but I don’t know of any concern about improving it. I wasn’t the only person who had a RISC PC alongside my PC under my desk, but as far as I know we were all running old software and original Acorn-era RISC OS. I didn’t do anything beyond that until the Pi came along myself. |
Clive Semmens (2335) 3276 posts |
This was my set-up until the Pi arrived: http://clive.semmens.org.uk/Photos.php?Assortment%2FRiscPCs |
Bryan Hogan (339) 589 posts |
Forgot to say, there are some photos from the meeting and a copy of Clive’s words and pictures up on the website: |
Clive Semmens (2335) 3276 posts |
Words and pictures also available at: http://clive.semmens.org.uk/RISCOS/index.php?ThirtyYears – now working satisfactorily on NetSurf (I think – do let me know if there are issues, apart from the title frame getting duplicated on NetSurf. Don’t know why that happens – it doesn’t on any other browser.) |
Clive Semmens (2335) 3276 posts |
I’ve been looking at that title frame duplication problem. I’m pretty sure it’s an error in the way NetSurf handles framesets – but those really should be obsolete anyway. |
Clive Semmens (2335) 3276 posts |
Fixed. NetSurf interprets the target=“_parent” attribute differently from everyone else. In these particular cases I can use target=“_top” instead, which NetSurf interprets normally. |