On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
> Well back in the day of Minicomputers the best you could hope was a 68k @
> 10MHz and that's a lot less than what an SGC card has to offer (let alone
> the GoldFire or the ArmQL ;-)
Yup, well, since the average new QL will soon have 128 or 256MB RAM, and
have a QL running in an X-window, on Linux, which has all of the benefits
of BSD without the BSDness of it all... ;)
> The thing is that if you squeeze it until it gives you can have a fully
> functional BSD that occupies 1 1.44Mb floppy (add there a microGUI) and you
> got yourself affordable internet access for everyone with a regular (SGC)
> QL :-)
The average future QL will also have oodles of storage and flash, as
required...
Dave
ql.spodmail.com
