In article , Iain Churches
wrote:

It may be that they called the software v7 in honour of Jean Sibelius's
last published symphony no7 in C Maj.

I suspect they did. I have a vague recollection of reading something about
that at the time. But I may be imagining this as it seems a logical reason
given the name iof the developers. :-)

IIRC Many early adopters, etc, stayed with the RISC OS version for some
time after versions appeared on other platforms. No idea if any still do. A
difficulty now would be that IIRC it required a 'key floppy' to install. So
anyone trying to use the RO version now would need to know a work-around
for that because floppy drives aren't common these days, and the original
disc may have deteriorated.

I did find a page, yesterday, explaining how to transfer it from one RO
machine emulator to another, though. Which implies someone still uses that
version. It presumably wouldn't run native on current RO ARM hardware as
the instruction sets, etc, have changed quite a lot and the original was in
assembler using some 'tricks'. Very clever, but not easily ported.

Jim

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