On 4 Jul at 21:28, Tim Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, Jim Nagel > <[email protected]> wrote: > > [Snip] > > > (Impulse, i now recall, is the Computer Concepts behind-the-scenes > > protocol by which operations such as mailmerge are done. i'm > > curious now to know what else it can do.) > > I'm sure others will answer that but I was under the impression (hah!) > that Impulse started out as CC's replacement for the Arthur OS which > they decided was unable to run decent software on the Archimedes. RISC > OS hit the streets first but Impulse was retained to provide their > proprietary means of clipboard handling, for example.
Somewhere I had, maybe still have, the Impulse information sheet that CC gave out at one of the big Acorn shows. You are quite right in your recollection. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe [email protected] for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/
