ROMPatch

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ROMPatch

Acorn Computers/RISC OS Open Ltd

Patch version	Description	OS versions affected
2.01 (24 Oct 1996)^[1]	Slow printing to some HP printers on parallel port.	3.70
2.01 (24 Oct 1996)^[1]	Occasional "No stack for trap handler" on some StrongARMs (SA110, revision less than 3).	3.70
2.02 (24 Feb 1997)^[2]	Errors from some applications using several in-memory transfers in succession.	3.70
2.02 (24 Feb 1997)^[2]	Crashes for very large in-memory transfers between applications (typically more than 7 Mb, or smaller transfers from applications with very large Wimp slots).	3.60, 3.70
2.02 (24 Feb 1997)^[2]	Failure of in-memory transfer if the transfer involves a dynamic area at a very high address (2Gb or more).	3.60, 3.70
2.02 (24 Feb 1997)^[2]	System centisecond timing reference can run a few percent fast or slow for periods of about an hour. The system real time clock correspondingly gains or loses time until the next hour, or until a reset.	3.60, 3.70
2.02 (24 Feb 1997)^[2]	Floppy discs cannot be formatted if the hard disc is locked.	3.60
2.04 (22 Oct 1997)^[3]	With ADFSBuffers non-zero and a disc of more than 2Gb, machine may hang.	3.60, 3.70
2.04 (22 Oct 1997)^[3]	C runtime sees uncaught trap if a SWI, called through _swi or _swix, aborts.	3.70, 3.71
2.05 (24 Jul 2012)^[4]		3.50
2.06 (27 May 2013)^[5]		4.02
2.07 (20 Nov 2017)^[6]	"Disc error 20" occurs with modern IDE devices.	3.50, 3.60, 3.70, 3.71, 4.02
2.08 (17 Mar 2024)^[7]	Occasional "No stack for trap handler" on some StrongARMs (SA110, revision less than 3) with Econet.	3.70, 3.71

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