Peter Graf wrote: > no offense intended at all, but are you not counting the now much faster > PC hardware (which you didn't design) and the Windows features (which > you didn't write, e.g. TCP/IP) as QPC achievements?
So? Does this change the reality in any way? No. I've never taken credits for making PCs faster. But it's a simple fact that a current PC can emulate 68k code faster than any native 68k chip on the market. QemuLators experimental JIT core is probably even faster, but we're talking of such huge speeds here that this doesn't even matter anymore! > It is really really hard to make new QL hardware possible... I find > public statement that QL hardware "can not match" in features somewhat > depressing... It's not that it can't match it. It's that, at this time, it doesn't match it. This is purely an assessment of the current situation, one with which you can hardly argue. If there is to be new hardware, great, be my guest! I could even imagine helping a bit on the driver side, if I can find the time. My point was simply that brushing QPC aside as "just an emulator" is wrong. Not more, not less. I have not and will never argue against native hardware. > Wouldn't a new and cool device in a QL's microdrive slot be a > feature as well? Actually, that sounds neat, yes. I whish you every luck you can get with your project. > Not everyone is biased toward "emulating SMSQ/E under Windows" - which > is what QPC is restricted to. Qemulator(Fast) is very fast emulator as > well. Unlike QPC it allows to run a choice of operating systems which is > a big feature and major point when it comes to define a "platform". Just > saying. Live and let live :-) We probably just define "platform" differently. QemuLator is without a doubt a great product. But it mostly emulates other computers. Be it a standard QL, a Gold Card QL, more recently probably even an Aurora. And when it does that, it's a standard QL, a Gold Card QL... you get my drift. QPC is never any of those. QPC is QPC, and that's that. In your eyes this might be a bad thing, but this is the reason I call it a platform on its own. Cheers, Marcel _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
