Then, of course, Norman's 'Stripper' does the above job in a twinkle too
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
Norman Dunbar EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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QPC2v2 is a great product, it just a pity that it is now mainly us more
'expert' QL users that are left to use it.
I agree, but I'm not that much of an expert - so I just use it in the manner
of a QL, to do what I want to do.
Many of those who have abandoned the QL OS for the pleasures :-(
On 4 Feb 2001, at 10:36, Peter Graf wrote:
> Of course the QL is a platform. It is not true that the QL is restricted to
> QDOS. I can run a different operating system on it, not only QDOS. The
> interfaces to the hardware are defined and accessible.
All right, then QPC must be a platform as
Although the 'QPC2v2 again' thread is getting a bit long, the
discussion has been very interesting and shows that we need both an
emulator and a native hardware way forward. The emulator scene is very
well served at the moment. Let's hope that the future of
Q40/Goldfire/any other SGC
Tony Firshman wrote:
Do you get initial screen blanking, and then
nothing (I wish TT did a splash screen!).
Or better: A progress indicator while starting up.
You probably miss the old QL way of a screen memory test you can *watch* :-)
Describe exactly, because, like the QL, the various
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcel Kilgus
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Wolfgang Lenerz wrote:
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Erm, Wolfgang... ;-)
QDOS. I can run a different operating system on it, not only QDOS. The
interfaces to the hardware are defined and accessible.
All right, then QPC
Marcel wrote:
Anyway, let's call it a /QL compatible/ platform of it's own.
How about/SMSQ only/ platform of it's MS Windows? :-)
Still think interfaces that nobody can access don't make a platform. But
surrounded by SMSQ-on-Windows users it looks like I must give up :-)
Peter
Peter Graf writes:
Hm. If it smells like Bill Gate's feet, tastes a little like Pentium
silicon and sometimes looks like coffee, I have my doubts that it is tea.
(just joking)
Look at it this way: If a Windows PC is a QL, then a Sun workstation is an
Amiga, an AIX server is a gameboy, and
