Marcel Kilgus makes some magical things to make me read
} Peter Graf wrote:
} > I will no longer lose my money and sparetime for QL style hardware!!! If
} > you find the Windows PC the better investment, you can save me a lot of work!
}
} No, Peter, don't say that. I really think the QL world needs both.
}
So do I.
I have been looking for months to upgrade my PC (P1-MMX, 180 MHz, 4 PCI and 1 ISA
used, 4 IDE HD, 2 SCSI HD, 1 IDE CDROM, 1 DVD and 1 CD-R burner on SCSI,
256 Mega of EDO). And the simple change to a 'viable' configuration
(which would not be obsolete in three months) (change of Motherboard, CPU,
memory and box (because AT is now extinct)) has always been rated too expensive: my
limit is about 5kF (i.e. 750 Ecus).
So, If you were able to produce a new Qxx for less than this price,
(and if it was able to reuse for instance one or more of my 64 Meg EDO module,
or use any currently largely available memory module from PC (66/100/133 SDram), fit
inside an AT big tower (or even an ATX , this is now stable),
and be able to manage some IDE drives (old and less old: I would recycle
a 1080 Meg and a 6.5 Giga : but this would mean the softare would
be able to deals with a new filesystem which would have no limit (or higher)
on the directory vs filename length issue) with FPU , and on which
the PE & Prowess program can be run, I would say I would probably go for it.
-J. Grimbert
