Once again we are on the eternal debate about what makes one computer
different than the other. It is the hardware or it is the OS?
With an Intel system I can run a number of OS's; Windows, Linux, MacOS,
BSD, etc. With an OS like Linux or BSD, I can run them on different
CPU's; Intel, MIPS, ARM, Sparc, etc.
The QL still harks back to the days when the OS and the hardware were
very tied together.
I'm a software guy, so me, the platform is the OS. To a hardware person,
the platform might be the hardware. In these days of virtualization, it
can all get a little confused. I see no purpose for these long
arguments, other than to create traffic on the mailing list.
Tim Swenson
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