In article ,
Laurence Payne wrote:
On Mon, 25 May 2009 10:11:27 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

No, I don't. Are you an enthusiast for something esoteric or
something retro?

But whatever it is, if it takes a CD/DVD drive at all, what can it
use other than an ATA or SATA unit?

The snag is suitable RISC OS drivers ain't available for every drive.
And no two makes of drive seem to be identical.

What's he on then? An old Archimedes? Can't argue with religion I
suppose :-)

Think Jim uses an Iyonix. Newer and more powerful than this machine. ;-)
They can do all the common tasks like handling news and email, simple
browsing, word processing etc just fine. Things that need a deal of number
crunching like video, not. But ok for audio. But I have a PC for tasks it
can't handle so well.
The beauty of using a non standard OS is there's no need for
sophisticated firewalls and anti virus etc systems which cause so much
grief on a PC.

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