In article , Graeme Wall
wrote:
On 10/02/2017 15:40, Iain Churches wrote:
"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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My recollection was that the first version was actually '7', not
"1.00", although I've never used it so had to check.

No that cannot be right because v 6.2 is the version which I bought
originally, and it had been on sale for many years before that. A
colleague of mine uses 4.15 which he updated from 4.0.


IIRC there was an oddity in that v6 came out /after/ v7. It was a cut
down version for schools or something.

I think that is correct. In effect the 'full' version was '7' and cut-down
cheaper versions had lower version numbers. And the webpage I referred to
seems to confirm my recollection that '7' was the initial release. They
may have reverted to a "1.00" for the first Windows version because that
didn't work as well at the time, though. :-)

Jim

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On 10 Feb, wrote:
In article , Iain Churches
wrote:

"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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My recollection was that the first version was actually '7', not
"1.00", although I've never used it so had to check.

No that cannot be right because v 6.2 is the version which I bought
originally, and it had been on sale for many years before that. A
colleague of mine uses 4.15 which he updated from 4.0.

Did you read the wiki page? It seems not...

In case it helps you, I just did a quick look though the index for my back
issues of "Archive" magazine (a RISC OS user magazine). I found two
articles on "Sibelius 7" in 1995. IIUC This is some time before any version
appeared for Windows. I did a search by title, so there may be other
examples which don't mention "Sibelius" in the title.

Jim

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On 10/02/2017 16:31, Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , Graeme Wall
wrote:
On 10/02/2017 15:40, Iain Churches wrote:
"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
...
My recollection was that the first version was actually '7', not
"1.00", although I've never used it so had to check.

No that cannot be right because v 6.2 is the version which I bought
originally, and it had been on sale for many years before that. A
colleague of mine uses 4.15 which he updated from 4.0.


IIRC there was an oddity in that v6 came out /after/ v7. It was a cut
down version for schools or something.

I think that is correct. In effect the 'full' version was '7' and cut-down
cheaper versions had lower version numbers. And the webpage I referred to
seems to confirm my recollection that '7' was the initial release. They
may have reverted to a "1.00" for the first Windows version because that
didn't work as well at the time, though. :-)


There was a fad for things to be called name 7 at the time, I blame it
on the BBC! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake%27s_7


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On 10/02/2017 17:11, Graeme Wall wrote:

There was a fad for things to be called name 7 at the time, I blame it
on the BBC! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake%27s_7

In 1998 when Sun's Solaris OS reached version 2.7 they dropped the '2.',
leaving just 7.
I assumed it was to match Oracle's database version scheme.

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"Graeme Wall" wrote in message
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On 10/02/2017 16:31, Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , Graeme Wall
wrote:
On 10/02/2017 15:40, Iain Churches wrote:
"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
...
My recollection was that the first version was actually '7', not
"1.00", although I've never used it so had to check.

No that cannot be right because v 6.2 is the version which I bought
originally, and it had been on sale for many years before that. A
colleague of mine uses 4.15 which he updated from 4.0.


IIRC there was an oddity in that v6 came out /after/ v7. It was a cut
down version for schools or something.

I think that is correct. In effect the 'full' version was '7' and
cut-down
cheaper versions had lower version numbers. And the webpage I referred to
seems to confirm my recollection that '7' was the initial release. They
may have reverted to a "1.00" for the first Windows version because that
didn't work as well at the time, though. :-)


There was a fad for things to be called name 7 at the time, I blame it
on the BBC! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake%27s_7

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

Iain

"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , Iain Churches
wrote:

"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
...
My recollection was that the first version was actually '7', not
"1.00", although I've never used it so had to check.

No that cannot be right because v 6.2 is the version which I bought
originally, and it had been on sale for many years before that. A
colleague of mine uses 4.15 which he updated from 4.0.

Did you read the wiki page? It seems not...

No. While reading your post I was distracted by landing at Arlanda.

I can understand that you may not be familiar with 'Acorn' (RISC OS)
software of the era. So won't know from experience. But I was using their
systems at the time. It appeared for RISC OS long before it did for
Windows or Macs.

I had a Commodore C64 in 1985 followed by a Commodore PC in 1985
and then Amiga. (with Music Composer software, - five staves with a G clef
filled the screen:-) I used Mac for many years, in post production as it
was
the platform chosen by New England Digital.

So no Acorn.

Iain

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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"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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They
may have reverted to a "1.00" for the first Windows version because that
didn't work as well at the time, though. :-)

The first major update was to 1.4 A local college
has it.

You say "didn't work as well at the time, though. :-)"
Can you be a bit more specific?

Iain

"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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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.

It was just an idea that came into my head. But the 7th, although the
last and a very fine single movement work, is not generally regarded
as the best. And Sibelius burned the manuscript for no8

But I may be imagining this as it seems a logical reason
given the name iof the developers. :-)

Indeed:-) Did you ever come into contact with the Finn brothers?

Iain

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Iain Churches wrote:
Sibelius is now at ver 8.xx and is now the best selling
(and most expensive:-) of all the music software options.
It has left Finale, Notation, Encore, Lillypond and the others
far behind, and for years has been the programme of choice
for music colleges,conservatories, and schools around
the globe. Thousands of composers and arrangers partake
in the Sibelius score exchange scheme.

http://www.avid.com/sibelius

Good to know it's still going strong. Sadly, I can't even fire up mine as
it needs a screen resolution that modern monitors can't do. But then not
being a composer, haven't much need for it.

You don't have to be a composer or arranger.
If you have an interest in music it is a very intuitive learning aid.
There is even a dedicated keyboard available.
http://www.sibelius.com/products/keyboard/index.html

XP is mature enough not to need further changes. It is remarkably
stable, so (as they say) "If it ain't broke, why fix it? "

On a stand alone machine, OK. But most of the updates involve security
measures. Which you'd likely be best to have if the machine is used
online.

Very few studio DAWs are connected to the internet, except
perhaps when the software developers want to test or down/upload.
My machine was connected for about fifteen minutes with Norton running,
on the day it was commisssioned and has never been online since.
I am told computers run faster without virus protection.

Material comes onto the DAW via USB stick, which I scan with
F-Secure on a laptop beforehand.

Iain