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The recent questionnair should be able to answer the question: What
percentage of QLers use both Qdos AND hard disks [HDD] (a small percentage I
would think) Minerva and emulator users can upgrade the OS. Hardware Qdos
users with HDD would have to migrate to new hardware - or stagnate.
How do you work this out - Minerva is unlikely to be updated to take account of the new device format, any more than QDOS. Most emulators still rely on either Minerva or QDOS 48K ROMs and I sure there would not be room to implement the new code in the actual ROM.
If it were implemented as an add-on driver, even an extra TRAP, surely this could be LRESPR'd into all versions as well (rather than needing to be hard coded into the operating system) - it could of course, be a module for smsq/e.
-- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 26 Oak Road, Shelfield, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1RQ
http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/
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