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- Subject: Re: Q-OS.. What is it??
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 02:32:40 GMT
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- Ross Deeley, regarding your message ' Re: Q-OS.. What is it??' -
-
- >On 25 Dec 1995, Joseph Waldvogel wrote:
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- >> Get the file called Q_LOG.LHA from AmiNet and make up your Own Mine.
-
-
- >So how does it 'recompile' the software? Wouldnt they have to have the
-
- Well, thats the secret, isn't it ?
-
- A hypothetical:
-
- What if you had a version of pc-task that instead of emulating
- (interpreting) each piece of a pc executable one at a time into motorola
- code, and then executing it, instead interpreted it all at once and spat
- the result out as an amigados file ?
-
- Fine in theory. No problem. Up until now though, opinion was that it'd
- require an AI to do it, so as it could handle differences in os's, etc.
- E.g. Translating the intel instructions is easy; getting a pile of them to
- do the desired effect on a motorola based os is not.
-
- My guess is that they have some sort of Expert System in place. It has been
- mentioned by the author that it is not entirly fool proof or perfect yet...
- They perhaps also have a Neural Net(s) tied up in it also, so it can
- 'learn'.
-
- The Q system supposedly can take Quite Some Time to do the translating.
- Hours. But you only need to do it once for a given program.
-
- Had a simular idea myself; but it was more based on genetic algorithms and
- computers we might have in 5 years time :-)
-
- It's a good idea - but is it for real ? Guess it's "wait and See". I'm not
- so foolish as to dismiss the idea out of hand.
-
- >As I see it - this would be a new OS, that will run software that is
- >written for it. While this may attract some shareware or other FD stuff,
- >I can't see any commercial developers getting involved.
-
- Wrong. Get the above mentioned log file.
-
- >BTW wasn't Q-DOS the operating system of the old Sinclair 68008 based
- >machine?
-
- Yup. I belive there was also a Quick and Dirty dos 'Q DOS'; later renamed
- MS-DOS....
-
- ...... Brendan
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