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Thursday, September 7th, 2023
| Time | Event |
| 6:24p | Nancy learns a few more British words, playing the Legend of Kyrandia and Resident Evil mix https://youtu.be/9yHJ9JY6WA8  Current Mood:  amused |
| 7:56p | Exploring RISC OS further.. At first I thought it only has the frame buffer terminal (the one you get if desktop is configured incorrectly). But there is also a GUI to run console apps, which is called "Task Window" (because each one is associated with a task). Apparently you can open stdout/stderr/stin for already running tasks (RISC OS term for processes). Console app include BASIC64, which BTW allows inline assembly and creating GUI Apps. I doubt it is that useful, since RISC assembly is very verbose and modern OS comes with C/C++ compiler But yeah, it is here, if you want to just learn ARM quickly. I personally I cant write BASIC to save my life. Beside BASIC64, there is also Obey scripting language, akin to Bash. Toolbar goes to the right of the window, because there is more horizontal space than vertical, which is more important for consoles and text editor. Just like with OSX, all windows share a menu bar (again to save screen space and reduce clutter). It is also possible to keep submenus from the menubar bar always open in a separate window. I.e. you can have File menu on the left of the editor window.  Current Mood: amused |
| 9:38p | Instead of BIOS password RISC PC had this! Since the computer was targeted at education institutions, it had to be protected from users damaging the OS. After the configuration, !Boot and !Apps folders got locked and a special pin on the motherboard was set, which prevented modifying CMOS. Then the a padlock was put onto the case, to prevent people from resetting the pin or dumping the HDD.  Current Mood: amused |
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