Archive Magazine 26:3 Out Now! See this issue's contents.

Welcome to the new issue of Archive Magazine, Volume 26 Issue 3 (May/June 2023).

In this issue (deep breath): We grill Steve Revill of ROOL! We talk AI! We get the soldering iron out! We review new hardware! We play games! We make PDFs! We write code! Phew!

Digital editions are being sent out to all subscribers today, with printed magazines to follow. Archive is the magazine for RISC OS users. Published in the UK since 1987, Archive Magazine welcomes subscribers from all over the world. Each issue of Archive features a comprehensive rundown of the latest RISC OS news, along with a wide variety of articles from RISC OS experts.

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Nice, and hoooo the picture, I so much wish to be on the beach right now… XD

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I’m impressed that my TrainTimes application update made it into this volume as I only sent you it on the 13th June

Another splendid issue Gavin (and I’m not just saying that because I am mentioned in there!)

Really do recommend anyone even semi-serious about RISC OS subscribes to Archive. Forums and news sites are all well and good, but it is useful to have a proper digest of all the latest goings-on over the past couple of months, all in one convenient package.

Another splendid issue Gavin (and I’m not just saying that because I am mentioned in there!)

Thanks Robert, glad you like it. It’s only possible thanks to all those names on the front cover, plus a number of others behind the scenes.

I hear that the first copies started arriving with people this morning.

I add my voice to the congratulations. I have a shelf of Archives two cubits long, with a supplement to Vol.5 No.1 at the left, and Vol26. No.3 at the right. The visual presentation of the cover took a colourful leap forward with Vol21. No.10. I am happy to see that tradition continues.

I have a shelf of Archives two cubits long

Hebrew cubit, Roman cubit, Royal cubit, or personal cubit?

Personal. I have no use for any other kind.

A propos units of measurement: an acre used to mean in medieval times the amount of land that an ox-team could plough in a day. This is not a unit of area, for it would depend on the slope of the land and the heaviness of the soil. It becomes clear that our metric system is inadequate for certain purposes. My personal cubits, for example, shrink at the same rate as my bones.

This is not a unit of area

It is, but the value is “it depends”. Imperial acre? Customary acre? Builder’s acre? Scottish acre? Irish acre? Cheshire acre? Greek, Turkish, Roman acres? All are different. Here in France they used acres up in Normandy for ages. There are grande and petite acres.

I can’t help but think that it was a battle between how much the ploughmen could actually turn in a day, and how much the landowners wanted them to turn.

My bookshelf is six thousand pages wide. Derivation? A ream of 500 pages of 80gsm A4 is 6cm. The bookshelf is 74cm. Actual value is 6,166 which is rounded to six thousand for simplicity. These are “theoretical pages”. It makes sense to measure the capacity of bookshelves in theoretical pages.

Actual number of available pages will be less because of paper thickness, bindings, etc. No, I’m not going to count.

Hmmm, pages… https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/bookshelf_sorting_2x.png

For acre google selion

Which reminds me of my favourite quiz question (assuming your selion = my acre): Give the perimeter of a square ten acre field in furlongs.

4?

One square mile is 640 acres, so one square furlong is 10 acres.