What you say is entirely correct. When I wrote the questions, I was considering answers that would help people focus their developments on something that is in demand.
Hardware is in relatively short supply and is getting older - replacements have the dual benefits of being faster and more reliable. Software is simple to duplicate, and it does not wear out. As it runs on modern hardware, that can be upgraded easily. Further, developing QPC further is the task of a few select individuals and while it benefits QPC to respond to community desires, the majority of people don't have much to contribute in that department. If a QPC owner wants an upgrade, they just update the emulator they already have, or the system it runs on ;) That said, QPC runs all the same software as all the other options. When asking what software people want, you have to first know what hardware people want to run it on. Once you're looking at an emulator, any emulator, that part of the question answers itself. There will be some specific questions about QPC in the next survey, but I am confident they won't tell the QPC devs anything new - though it will tell the community at large how other use it and where they see it going. That's something the QPC devs already know, I think. Dave On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Marcel Kilgus <[email protected]>wrote: > Dave Park wrote: > > All the emulators can be reconfigured to cover most of the hardware > > out there. > > Well, you seem to have the notion that there is QL hardware, and there > are emulators that emulate said hardware. That's probably true for > most form of emulators but not for QPC. QPC does NOT emulate any > native hardware (CPU and strange screen layouts not withstanding), it > is a QL "compatible" platform of its own, including specially written > OS and all. > > In fact it's now the other way round, there is no native hardware that > can match QPC in speed or features. That's why I was a bit mystified > by your choices. Just saying. > > Marcel > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
