Hi Urs,
I did not want to be or sound offending in any way or quip as you say.
Look, no problem at all.
I just wanted to give this some levity (by, ahem, Quipping).
I just wanted to express my very personal opinion that I find the product's
name not as great as the product itself - which I expressed already that I
find it great! - and think that its name somehow limits its real potential
That's exactly what I understood.
It's just that I disagree with you on the "potential" of this.
(from the marketing side and in spreading sense) to be bound to (ex) QLers
and the emulation scene (retro oriented). I see the product (yes, the 68K
emulation based virtual machine, the OS SMSQ/E and the shell/cli/programming
language SBASIC) more in the direction of an easy to setup and use
programming environment and am making a squint to JRuby (a Python
implementation for the Java Virtual Machine) and Jython (a Python
implementation for the Java Virtual Machine).
Perhaps I'm too cynical?
I think I don't have to prove my attachment to all things QLy, but I
just don't see this happening.
Question : if my kids would want to start programming, would I give them
a SuperBasic machine? Probably not.
If someone wanted a quick (and dirty?) machine to do some development on
a PC would I recommend a SuperBasic machine? Probably not (no Internet
access, a windowing system that will require serious effort to get
something nice on the screen - by nice I mean something akin to modern
windowing systems, Win7, gnome, kde etc...!).
Do I believe that SMSQmulator will draw in people who never heard of the
QL (or SMSQ/E etc) before? No.
This is why I don't believe that the name will have any importance...
BTW, there is nothing to stop you re-packaging SMSQmulator under another
name, and/or with another boot program etc...!!!.
WOlfgang
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