----- Original Message -----
From: Wolfgang Lenerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [ql-users] QPC2v2 again
> On 1 Feb 2001, at 20:06, Geoff Wicks wrote:
>
>
> > The point I wanted to make is that we are a "Broad Church" in the QL
> > Community. That is, we embrace a wide range of people and opinions. To
> > survive we have to have a high degree of tolerance. We need both QPC and
the
> > Q40 as well as those people who buy neither new hardware or software.
>
>
> Sutre, but that doesn't stop us from arhuing (hotly) about the rights
> and wrongs...
>
Of course, I am all for constructive controversy, and often stir it up
myself. However I sometimes feel the QPC2 v Q40 debate gets a bit near the
boundaries. Reminds me a bit of Perfection v Text87, and what did that
achieve?
> > Perhaps a better example than Just Words! software would be the future
> > internet capabilities of the QL. Is there much sense in running QL
internet
> > software on a PC emulator? (Hope this sets off a fierce discussion!).
>
>
> No, because there is one good reason why this might make sense:
> security. There seem to be so many security loopholes in MS
> exploder and NS Circumnavigator, that usiong an unknown browser
> might actally be a good idea!
>
Good point!
> Finally, another important point. In one sense Marcel has it easier than
> > Peter. The infrastructure for software is already there in the form of
the
> > QL and PC. A hardware developer often has to produce his own
infrastructure,
> > no easy task with instability in component prices, the need to find a
> > manufacturer and difficulties in international currency transactions.
Small
> > wonder the Q40 has had logistical and financial problems beyond Peter's
> > control.
>
> Well, I'd say that a hardware developper has hardware problems,
> and a software developper has software problems... I don't think
> that developping either QPC or the Q40 was a mean feat!
I was not intending to belittle Marcel's achievement. After all, I am an
enthusiastic QPC user. I still think there are logistic differences between
software and hardware development.
The software developer has few costs other than his own time and can
concentrate on developing the software. The hardware developer has huge
capital problems and costs that are continually changing while he is
developing his product. We know this not only from the Q40 problems, but
also from the Coldfire history.
Geoff Wicks
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.tripod.co.uk/geoffwicks/justwords.htm
