[News] Explanations from Fleecy, part 3 | ANN.lu |
Posted on 01-Apr-2001 13:11 GMT by Christian Kemp | 63 comments View flat View list |
Fleecy writes: AmigaOS4.0 will be launched in the summer, with 4.2 and 4.5 coming out at six month intervals. OS5 will be late next year.
He adds:
People have buried the Amiga more times than squirrels bury acorns, and you know what, it keeps on growing back. Beware the naysayers, for they have their own agendas.
In reply to a quote which says Ralph Schimdt (MorphOS) says there Amiga Inc has a lot of illusions...BPlan won`t run AmigaOS4...it will run MorphOS, he answers:
Amiga Inc has an agreement with bPlan to build an AmigaOne. AmigaOne computers run Amiga Inc software. Whatever else is run on it is nothing to do with us, unless it infringes our copyrights or
IP.
Finally, he says:
I have spent hours a day trying to bring all the Amiga developers together but it seems there is just too much hatred. In the end there can only be one AmigaOS, and one Amiga Inc company moving it forwards. Amiga has retaken control, is working directly with many contractors and looks forwards to all working with us to make a better Amiga in the future..
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Posted by Ralph Schmidt on 01-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 32 (Andy): Sigh...we support the Elbox Mediator in a way that we support all
other zorro cards. We *WON'T* support bank switching because it's
dead ugly, a hack and with mmu tricks it completely sucks with a
hash table mmu like PPC. I want MorphOS to be as clean as possible.
We *don't* *yet* support any PPC accelerator from Elbox because
there is none yet, neither do we know the specs of something we
haven't seen yet. Does anybody actually know if such a ppc card
would work in existing mediators ?...would it be able to access the
1200 addressspace ?...does it get amiga interrupts ?...does it have
an interrupt controller ?
We all don't know that....but we have people here that because some
company announced something 6 months ago(which should have been released
in November..do you remember ?) that wanna get support for a *vapor*
product today. Ridiculous, don't you think.
Furthermore we have a serious resource problem...we focus at the
moment to make MorphOS completely HW dependent and rewriting all
the remaining 68k kickstart modules.
Look..i could also also announce everywhere that we support that
and this and those...all people are happy which believe into empty
PR phrases but i wouldn't be happy because we would have to clone
our brains and hands 10 times or just don't do anything but let
others "believe" for something which won't happen in a realistic
time frame.
*When* MorphOS runs on the BPlan system it is HW independent and
the biggest hurdle is managed...*then* we can think about supporting
other HW. That's something which makes sense and is honest. |
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