On Monday 19 February 2001 11:39 pm, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Chris Gilbert wrote:
> > Just been looking over the web page (it actually looks different (or is
> > that just me :))
>
> Yeah .... hehe.. esp. if you look within a day :)
>
> > Anyway I noticed that it says it's work in progress for the past 4 years
> > in the 2nd paragraph.  Isn't that a tad out of date, we've had arm32
> > since 94. Checking mailing list archives, June 96 was the setup of the
> > arm32 list,
>
> Hmm.... yeah quite .... from 1994 sounds a better alternative indeed...
> maybe we can also put some extra information as an `working on now'
> element ? i.e. the merge of common code to sys/arch/arm ?

Perhaps the merge should spawn a port-arm webpage from which the new arch dir 
names are subsections?

> > I'm not sure if the port really counts as work in progress either more,
> > yes there's work going on, but 1.5 was good release for arm32, the
> > sysinst installer was liked by most that saw it at Risc-OS 2000,
> > especially when compared with the old installer.
>
> The new installer is really much better than the old one !! ... i just
> updated my RiscPC to 1.5 to avoid real real old stuff... and to update to
> your snapshot :)

Indeed, I have scary memories of the original install docs, which had a 
requisite of a brick wall with a large X on it :)  Grin, I remember 
installing 1.2 or was it 1.3 from a large stack of floppies, at uni I used to 
download them late at night to about 10 different machines, and then walk 
around copying to disk on them all (oh so much fun, I'm glad CD-R's are more 
common, as are zip disks :)

> > Also should we remove the direct reference to mark's email address, and
> > get people to mail the port-arm32 list with queries?
>
> Sounds good... maybe we can put some names on the website to?

Yes, perhaps with a section saying past programmers?

Cheers,
Chris