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From: n62@nikhefh.hep.nl (Klamer Schutte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: STs, QLs and the great emulation game.
Message-ID: <613@nikhefh.hep.nl>
Date: 27 Feb 89 13:24:36 GMT
References: <171@ucl-cs.UUCP> <3528@sugar.uu.net>
Reply-To: n62@nikhefh.hep.nl (Klamer Schutte)
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In article <3528@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <171@ucl-cs.UUCP>, S.Usher@ucl-cs.UUCP writes:
>> 	Full multitasking
>
>Note that the operating system on the QL is Tripos, which is what Commodore

The operating system of the QL is QDOS, not Tripos. 

To return to the article: I think porting software from a QL to an Amiga ( or
vice versa ) is about as difficult as porting software from UNIX to a QL : 
Not to simple. The problem is that QDOS is a quite odd operating system; it 
has calls which can do the job but with different calls then you should expect.
e.g. a stty() call on a window is not existent; one should use another call to
read in "raw" and "cooked" mode ( no cbreak; signals doesn't exist on a QL ).
Another major problem is the lack of any environment variables on the QL.
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