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| Posted on 27-Nov-2000 19:04 GMT by Christian Kemp | 57 comments
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christophe Decanini noticed there's
an interview (in French
and (English)
with Ralph Schmidt of MorphOs fame on on AmigaImpact.
He also provided a summary (read more below).
- Limited (68k) support of mediator if no use of MMU tricks.
- Support of G-REX hardware (G-REX software is done by MorphOS team).
- Eyetech products support will be decided once available.
- Elbox did not contact Morphos team and MorphOS team do not think a lot of PPC owner will adopt mediator.
- MorphOS team members are part of Bplan, MorphOS will run on Bplan hardware. There will be an announcement early december.
- Morphos need to be working stable on CyberstormPPC and Blizzard PPC to be sell as a commercial product then MorphOS will be hardware independent to run on new bplan hardware. Perhaps it will also run on Macintosh. No X86 port expected.
- Recompiling a warpup application is the only way to run it on MorphOS.
- Name of developers for MorphOS application will be anounced in december.
- Not decided yet on how MorphOS will be sell. OEM, from Vapor online web or from other distributors.
- MorphOS team could adopt the type of developpers structure Vapor is using today.
- A third beta version of MorphOS should be out in next weeks with PPC version of MUI, YAM, CED, MagicMenu, AmiTCP, ADE. All PPC users should try it and give feedbacks to enhance MorphOS.
I did not verify every point of this summary, please visit the original in case of any doubts.
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| Posted by Roj on 27-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 22 (Richie):
Yeah, it's people like you that cause superior products to disppear in favor of their cheaper, lower-quality counterparts (Beta vs. VHS et al, just about anything vs. Wintel, et al). In the end, you get what you pay for.
You CANNOT convince me that the PC architecture is the best there's ever been for any computer platform. It's cheap because the patents were given away by the makers. They gave them away because they saw no future for such an inferior computer design. Sure it's gotten to the point of superiority because of the sheer numbers of people and dollars driving it. But the fact that it's so widely accepted as the norm makes it close to impossible for machines with better underlying architecture to surface long enough to be recognized by the mainstream.
A great big thank you and a big wet one right on the kisser.
As far as the Haage & Partner vs. Phase 5 conflict, I don't know the gory details and frankly I don't want to know. While I believe it would be best if they'd work out their differences, it clearly isn't going to happen. If history repeats itself, the last one standing will be the cheaper, inferior product thanks to the attitude demonstrated by "Richie". |
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