Peter Graf wrote, on 13/Feb/11 23:10 | Feb13:
Hi Marcel,
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.
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?
If the speed and features were part of your system, written in a QL
compatible form, I would sort of agree. But the sorry fact that
Freescale (former Motorola) makes no new 68k chips, is really not a QPC
achievement.
There has been about a decade without new QL hardware, and maybe even
you might have noticed that this has not really vitalized the QL. Even
your own emulator will finally become pointless if nobody cares about
the original(s) anymore. So why not allow a little "bias" toward QL
hardware once in a while?
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... Wouldn't a new and cool device in a QL's microdrive slot
be a feature as well? To "see and feel" something is a feature for me -
we humans are not fully virtualized... I can not somehow beam QPC into
my QL and match this ;-)
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 :-)
... and we should welcome *both*.
I too (of course) prefer to use *real* hardware. It is good to be able
to window another system inside a laptop ..... well inside an XP
emulation inside my macbook (8-)#
However I don't get the same feel, like Peter.
Of course one could then start a debate about black box vs Aurora and
Qn0 (8-)#
Live and let *ALL* live.
Tony
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