Re: [ql-users] Need some flaming :-) - What about re-writing QDOS for x86 processors

2001-10-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Is the QL masculine or feminine in gender ? For us Germans, of course, it's a neutrum... Das QL? I'd say it's masculine. Marcel

RE: [ql-users] ProWesS Fonts

2001-10-16 Thread Claude Mourier 00
I think (in fact : I hope) Euro symbol as a normalisdd code in standards fonts : so I think ttf font would adhere to this standard. Under Windows, I found that 3D (hex) char is used . What is the code under Unicode ? Claude -Message d'origine- De : Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL

[ql-users] Re: [QLNews] Paris Show

2001-10-16 Thread Tony Firshman
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 at 05:06:03, Arnould Nazarian wrote: (ref: 017c01c15654$147f1940$7bd2d23e@afn) I actually came to the show but I was there only a 4:00. The only sign that there was something QL related in that room during that day was a letter addressed to Qbranch by a bank in the dustbin.

RE: Re: [ql-users] QPC2

2001-10-16 Thread Ian . Pine
It might. If you could get it featured in the next Bond film. Perhaps with a machine gun in the front, a couple of missile launchers on the sides and a rocket booster on the back :) Ian. -Original Message- From: Darren.Branagh Sent: 16 October 2001 09:49 To: ql-users Cc:

Re: [ql-users] ProWesS Fonts

2001-10-16 Thread Joachim Van der Auwera
Unicode character for Euro symbol is 20AC according to www.unicode.org You should actually place the symbol there and then PROforma should do the usual mapping. Kind regards, Joachim - Original Message - From: Claude Mourier 00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [ql-users] Clive Sinclair

2001-10-16 Thread Peter Graf
Tony wrote: Microdrives especially killed the QL. He tried to push the speed up to 100k - and they never worked reliably. Unfortunately, the 3.5 disks at the time were simply too large and power hungry. If only... ..the QL would have been more successful than the Macintosh, there'd be

Re: [ql-users] ProWesS Fonts

2001-10-16 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 11:24 ðì 16/10/2001 +0200, you wrote: Unicode character for Euro symbol is 20AC according to www.unicode.org You should actually place the symbol there and then PROforma should do the usual mapping. Kind regards, Joachim That would work great if Proforma could actually render fonts that

RE: Re: [ql-users] Clive Sinclair

2001-10-16 Thread Ian . Pine
..the QL would have been more successful than the Macintosh, there'd be a million active QL users, and Motorola would be producing 3rd generation 850 MHz 68060 CPU's ;-) And keyboard membranes wouldn't be as rare as hens' teeth. -Original Message- From: pgraf Sent: 16

Re: [ql-users] Need some flaming :-) - What about re-writing QDOS for x86 processors

2001-10-16 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Jerome Grimbert wrote: } Das QL? I'd say it's masculine. Isn't Das for Neutral, and Der for masculine (Die being for feminine ) ? Exactly. And Das QL just doesn't sound good ;-) Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Clive Sinclair

2001-10-16 Thread Tony Firshman
On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 at 14:11:12, ZN wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) On 10/16/01 at 4:59 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..the QL would have been more successful than the Macintosh, there'd be a million active QL users, and Motorola would be producing 3rd generation 850 MHz 68060 CPU's ;-)

Re: [ql-users] Clive Sinclair

2001-10-16 Thread Tarquin Mills
..the QL would have been more successful than the Macintosh, there'd be a million active QL users, and Motorola would be producing 3rd generation 850 MHz 68060 CPU's ;-) And keyboard membranes wouldn't be as rare as hens' teeth. When I was talking to Syd Humphreys, he said that QLEA

Re: [ql-users] Need some flaming :-) - What about re-writing QDOS for x86 processors

2001-10-16 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jerome Grimbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Malcolm Cadman makes some magical things to make me read } He .. he ... I got my 'le' and 'la' mixed up then :-) } } Is the QL masculine or feminine in gender ? In french, it is masculine. I do not know for german and

Re: [ql-users] Clive Sinclair

2001-10-16 Thread Tarquin Mills
Malcolm Cadman wrote: Peter Graf wrote: Tony wrote: Microdrives especially killed the QL. He tried to push the speed up to 100k - and they never worked reliably. Unfortunately, the 3.5 disks at the time were simply too large and power hungry. If only... ..the QL would have been more

Re: [ql-users] Clive Sinclair

2001-10-16 Thread Q Branch
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes A floppy disk drive would certainly have made it more successful - if people would have been prepared to pay for it. Around 1/3 to 2/3 again added to the selling price ? I was told that, just before the QL was due for

Re: [ql-users] Clive Sinclair

2001-10-16 Thread Phoebus Dokos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 11:47 ìì 16/10/2001 +0100, you wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes A floppy disk drive would certainly have made it more successful - if people would have been prepared to pay for it. Around 1/3 to 2/3