On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:
> is around the ability to run native QL programs (ie m68k QDOS ones) through
> emulation of some kind just like Apple did when they crossed to the PowerPC
> platform and again when they crossed to OS-X or what Gateway is doing now
> with the new Amiga OS. If you can retain the ability to run older programs
> (and uQLx is excellent at that - a pity QPC doesn't exist for Linux/Unix)
> by embedding some sort of transparent emulation mechanism then you lost
> nothing and gained a whole lot more. In the UN*X world emulation techiques
> like that are common. so for example FreeBSD has the ability to run Linux,
> Sparc or System V binaries (granted all of them are similar in architecture
> but that's beside the point)
In which case we should be pragmatic, and use Linux on cheap and fast
X86-based systems.
Last night I ran QLAY 0.90 on my Athlon 1900+, and had to set the delat to
10000 to get a 1-second cursor blink. Way fast.
Dave
