Dave Dexter writes: > How do people actually use their machines these days? What's in demand?
I use my 'QL' as an all-rounder - apart from Internet, scanning, CD-burning, networking and DTP. Database, accounting, letter writing, programming (S*Basic, assembler, php) and general mucking about are all done on my QLs. The PC also acts as a general 'server' for the QL side of things, such as backups and getting documents and data into my system. Ideally Id like to network between QLs (this is a real pain at present) and possibly between QLs and other systems (anyone tried Samba on the Q60 yet? ;) My main QL currently is QPC (for practical reasons) but I also have Q60, uQLx, QLX2, Aurora, QVME (QL hardware 'emulator' for Atari) Futura (ditto) and plain liquorice QL systems. Im presently playing with setting up a network between a W2k PC, Linux PC and Q60 Linux, however time's short and the going is tough.. Apart from networking, my needs are mainly software related; better programming tools, better file system >sigh< better window manager, and of course, better documentation >sigh< A larger pond of QL users would also be nice.. Per
