Dilwyn Jones writes: <> > What I'm getting at (not being familar with PC networks) is would you > need a driver to access Ethernet in general (or another QL on > ethernet), another driver to access a PC over a network, another > driver to talk to a printer hub, another to talk to a Mac etc etc. I > am still smarting a bit from other QL hardware like Aurora which for > all their promised merits (no blame fired at anyone here) were not > fully usable until the drivers eventually came along (thinking of > Aurora 256 colours which were not fully supported until Marcel took > the law into his own hands). > > You can probably see what I'm hinting at, if drivers are an issue, and > we were asking Quanta to assist with development costs, need this only > apply to the hardware or do we need to think of the software costs > too.
How about the existing NET driver; could that be easily converted to run over Ethernet? At least that would enable non-QL QLs with Ethernet capabilities to communicate.. Per
