On 10 Oct 2001, at 12:24, Timothy Swenson wrote:
> I do think the weakness in the QL world has always been the hardware. It's > easy to copy software and keep it around for many years. Hardware is > eventually going to break. Let's not forget the drivers for the hardware... The QL world isn't too strong there, either... > I doubt that a project like this will get started as a group effort. The > only way it will come to pass is if one person take it upon themselves to > do most of the work and get a working example (Linux was just like > this). and QPC... >Once a working example is done, then others might join. Since > source code to SMSQ/E is not publicly available, maybe a good start would > be to take QDOS Classic and port it to x86. This would demonstrate the > feasibility of the project. Unfortunately, porting an OS isn't just a case of "translating" from one assembler to another. You ahve to redo all the hardware interfaces, divers etc, not to mention taking account of the 'philosophy' of the underlying chip.... Wolfgang ----------------- www.wlenerz.com
