I don't have the time or the skill to help out with your project.have
Yet, as a user of ARM products I know there capability ... and Ienjoyed RISC OS since its inception.
I would be interested in being a user. The idea of a 'QL2' is promising.
-- Malcolm Cadman
I am watching this thread with interest. As someone who would not really buy such a machine as I am quite happy reinstalling *dows once a month on average :-( hence why turn to ARM OS'es or Linux...that would take the fun out of home computing if there was nothing to go wrong (that's one problem with QPC2+SMSQ/E, it's too stable, nothing goes wrong unless I misprogram or the PeeCee itself has a funny turn).
Umm ... we can't have you getting bored, can we :-)
Last week's virus messhas turned out to be beneficial in that it forced me to get the latest drivers for everything as the Win98SE I installed seems to be a bit more fussy about drivers for older applications than the Win95OSR2+Win98upgrade I used to use. It took ages, and every time I solved one problem two more seemed to crawl out of the woodwork.
A 'forced' tidy often does this.
Worth doing all the obvious things, too, like defragmenting the hard drive, etc.
I am sure though that should my career take a turn in the computing direction such a potentially multi-platform machine might be of interest at some point. And I'm sure that once the best market for it is identified and targetted it may well prove to be a really useful system, especially if the various OSes you mentioned become available for it.
I'm sure that even an emulated SMSQ/E (as opposed to QDOS) would be fast on it (look at the emulation with QPC2 on a Windoze machine for example). RISC-type chips should be able to run processor emulations with good speed.
It looks like future hardware is going to be able to offer this potential with ease.
-- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
