beep beep Lee Privett ¦--------------------------------------------------------¦ Sent from my Laptop running XP but emulating the QL using QPC2 ¦--------------------------------------------------------¦ ----- Original Message ----- From: Timothy Swenson To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 3:11 AM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] The Spring 2011 QL Survery
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 _______________________________________________ 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
