ROL holds AGM By Chris Williams. Published: 5th Nov 2004, 00:27:23 | Permalink | PrintableAw, no invite RISCOS Ltd. has yesterday held its annual general meeting. In previous years, the AGMs have been open meetings with all users invited to attend, although Thursday's event was a more private affair.
Many well known figures within the RISC OS market are company shareholders, each representing the interests of various quarters of the platform, and the ROL shareholders last met in private session during the height of the Castle-RISCOS Ltd. feud. Topics up for discussion this week perhaps included how to proceed under the recently signed RISC OS 4 licence, the issue of merging RISC OS and the announcement of the A9 and Adjust32.
The precedent of Adjust32 running on ARM9 is interesting right now, because Intel are developing a new family of processors for consumer electronics and seemingly relegating the ARM compatible XScale to wireless and networking kit. It'll be reassuring to find out exactly which markets RISC OS will be hopefully heading towards, especially with current rumours of future ARM9 cores exceeding 1GHz.
On the subject of the OS merger, ROL's managing director Paul Middleton reportedly told South East show punters that development of the 26bit RISC OS 4 will cease within the next two years, giving way to the 32bit Select32. EAUG secretary Frank Watkinson noted after the Guildford event, "Subscribers to the Select scheme can choose to support the 'old' scheme or the new Select32, or both. The price for the Select32 is the same as for the original Select scheme and you can simply transfer from the old to the new. If you wish to support both, it will cost you an extra £15."
The release of Select32 is pencilled in for sometime around mid-2005, and earlier this year, we learnt that ROL are hoping to raise further capital after its AGM to fund future developments. They also bought riscosdevelopments.com at the end of October, as per the impending company name change.
Links
RISCOS Ltd. website
Previous: Publisher threatens legal action over patches
Next: New RISC OS 5.08
Discussion Viewing threaded comments | View comments unthreaded, listed by date | Skip to the endPlease login before posting a comment. Use the form on the right to do so or create a free account.
|
Search the archives
Today's featured article
How to create a modern desktop theme More to life than drab 16 colours of 1994 [Updated]
47 comments, latest by jymbob on 13/10/06 6:38PM. Published: 4 Oct 2006
Random article
Oregano future undecided Meanwhile, TV Browser reaches version 3
39 comments, latest by nex on 09/12/04 2:46PM. Published: 25 Nov 2004
Useful links
News and media:
Iconbar •
MyRISCOS •
ArcSite •
RISCOScode •
ANS •
C.S.A.Announce •
Archive •
Qercus •
RiscWorld •
Drag'n'Drop •
GAG-News
Top developers:
RISCOS Ltd •
RISC OS Open •
MW Software •
R-Comp •
Advantage Six •
VirtualAcorn
Dealers:
CJE Micros •
APDL •
Castle •
a4 •
X-Ample •
Liquid Silicon •
Webmonster
Usergroups:
WROCC •
RONE •
NKACC •
IRUG •
SASAUG •
ROUGOL •
RONWUG •
MUG •
WAUG •
GAG •
RISCOS.be
Useful:
RISCOS.org.uk •
RISCOS.org •
RISCOS.info •
Filebase •
Chris Why's Acorn/RISC OS collection •
NetSurf
Non-RISC OS:
The Register •
The Inquirer •
Apple Insider •
BBC News •
Sky News •
Google News •
xkcd •
diodesign
|