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Actually, we would like to see PearPC and MorphOS working together. PearPC looks like a good development and we are following it. There is only so much that can be done at once. In a related matter, we do intend to offer a CD-bootable distribution of MorphOS for Apple owners (no need to partition or change your hard drive unless you want to), but we need to move down the road a bit both on the OS and corporate side before we do that. We hit a couple bumps in the road, but we are still on the road and now picking up some solid momentum again. As to board availability, we had boards for sale online for over a year (Pegasos I nine months/Pegasos II four). We have sold boards into 40 countries. They are not for sale online now and were not in mid-January to late-February simply because some components require 13-16 weeks for delivery and we had to balance the production against sales, cash, resources, etc. In the meanwhile, in addition to the 300-500 orders we were getting online and through Resellers/month, we had two large entities order not just boards, but complete systems (here we make more money). So, we built these into cases with memory, hard drives, power supplies and graphics cards at further expense. As they were delivered and the PO's were satisfied from our side, only THEN did we go into the big company bureaucratic financial management systems. One of the companies was able to tune their policies, but the other against March deliveries will not be settle until early JULY. We are no complaining. These are just the realities of turning a technology into a real Company. As to our Amiga roots - yes, we have them. One could argue that the computer cultures spawned during the days of CBM led in great part to the Open Source movement whose big days are still yet to come. But, as with the demise of Carthaginians what was left of the culture and people assimilated into the environment around them -- where they were. Many Amigans have done the same. We have absolutely nothing against any effort in the Amiga Community, but we keep this in distinct contrast to the current IP holders of what WAS Amiga, who have absolutely nothing to do with the past, but dominion over the cult-like following that exists. Keep the cult! You can have them. We are against the mindless bickering back and fourth -- akin to the once great Atari vs. Amiga debate (see were all that got them!). In the not too distant future, we are actually considering a GPL-like license strategy (emphasizing the word LIKE) for a starter set of the total technology package (including the hardware design). http://www.openpowerarchitecture.org In a week there will be more information there. :-) We think we could give the "home brew" market a push with the right platform and the right tools. That could be fun and recognizes what made the Amiga so special in the past. We need to lower the hardware cost below the 299 Euros we charged for the Pegasos II G3 and this could be a way to do it. BTW, both PowerPC vendors have something new in the low power-low temperature-higher reliability coming soon. We will be selling 750GX and 7447A CPU cards for the Pegasos II before the summer is out. Finally, a word of thanks to the good Doctor and the comprehensive review -- Grazie molto! -- and to steal a page from the *final* Chapter and DoctorMorbius_FP, "evil" is LIVE spell backwards. We are patiently waiting the revelation and the final judgment... Raquel and Bill Morph is more than an OS -- it's a concept! [Edit: Linkki korjattu. --Moderaattori] | ||
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Mutta Genesin tuntien tämä on todennäköisesti loudmouthingia eikä tule koskaan materialisoitumaan. | ||
| Joanna |
Suurin on se että Apple EI julkaise rautadokumentteja joten kaikkien muiden käyttöjärjestelmien teko niille perustuu ihmisten tekemään kokeiluun/disasseblointiin yms.. Ja vaikka se toimiikin kohtuudella silloin kuin kyseessä on iso/ilmainen ohjelmisto (linux etc) jolla on määrättömiin 'pikku apulaisia' niin pienellä kaupallisella valmistajalla ei ole semmoiseen varaa ryhtyä (eikä ottaa riskiä että Apple haastaa oikeuteen ja jumittaa projektin vuosiksi). Tämä sama ongelma tuli aikoinaan eteen BeOS:in tekijöille, he eivät voineet tukea uudempia Macceja joten PPC version kehitys pysähtyi. He(-kin) olisivat voineet lähteä arvaus-kokeilu linjalle tehdessään OS koodia mutta sanoivat silloin aikaa sitten ettei se toimi kaupallisessa käyttöjärjestelmässä ... | ||
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Väitöksistään huolimatta Applella on kuitenkin tavoitteena pakottaa oma visionsa tietokoneesta maailman tajuntaan ja se sisältää sekä raudan, että käyttiksen. Varmaankin brändiänsä vaan suojelevat, että ei kukaan pääse valittamaan, että "Apple on paskaa rautaa ku ei linuxissa toimi asia xyz".. Nyt kun kukaan ei Applen siunauksella pääse tekemään vaihtoehtokäyttiksiä, niin he voivat vaan sanoa, että se on softan vika, katsokaa: OS X:llä tämä toimii ihan hyvin. | ||
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