> Yes, OK then ... what will be the 21st Century specification of this > Linux based laptop ? > > No need to be practical, right now ... just dream what it might be .....
Well, if you put it like that, I still have no idea! However, a few thoughts, or rambles? MC68xxxx processor and lots of RAM. Floating Point Unit built in - keeps George happy! ;-) RAM disk, Floppy disc, Hard disk - a proper one, not a pseudo one like we have at the moment. Proper file system where the set up is like, or better then I have documented here: http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/blog/2009/05/whats-wrong-with-this-file-system/ - obviously backward compatibility mode would be included, but as a separate module. A proper (!) windowing system, like Windows if necessary, that is easy to use, set up and control. Resize by dragging borders (I know George has a demo - but it should be built in). Judging by Tony Tebby's rants against Unix, in QL Toady, I better not mention it in any way! ;-) Not that I was going to. Dual boot - Linux or QPC. Networking built in as laptops etc already have. Proper Ethernet (gigabit) and not some mash up designed by Sinclair. Proper character sets using unicode as and where necessary, one codeset fits all! A decent pile of software - C and C++ compilers - I know we have an extremely good C compiler already thanks to Dave Walker and his brother - Assembly language of course and SuperBasic. probably doesn't need changing for the 21st century - they got it right! Decent sound, able to play all known codecs - MPx (if you must), Ogg, FLAC, etc. Video and image abilities. HTML and CSS as standard. Etc etc. You name it, if it's already on Linux, then the QL21 should also have it! And so on. Cheers, Norman. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
