Re: QLink question

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:14:07 +0000, Curtis F Kaylor wrote:

> Kelli Halliburton wrote:
>> What are the odds that someone could come up with a QLink terminal
>> client for some other platform?
>>
>> I'm thinking that the other older computer systems' users might enjoy
>> the features. Atari 400/800, Apple ][, maybe CoCo and Spectrum... I
>> mean, these are the systems that had 40-column color screens. If memory
>> serves, they also have the same number of text rows (25), so the screen
>> layout would be the same. The CoCo and Spectrum even have the graphics
>> characters, though not the same wide variety as PETSCII.
>>
>> Since we have gone to the trouble of reverse-engineering the QLink
>> server code, after all, why not build new clients for machines that were
>> contemporaries of the C64 but never had access to QLink?
>>
>> At this point in time, I am NOT recommending that a client be written to
>> support any operating system for the IBM PC. I am also not recommending
>> any client for any of the 68000-based systems of the mid-80s, such as
>> the Atari ST, Amiga, or Macintosh.
>
> There is no need to write a client for the IBM PC. One has already been
> written. It is called AOL 1.0

That being the reason behind my lack of recommendation. I THOUGHT that it
could be left unstated...

BTW, PC-Link pre-dates AOL.

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