[News] Fleecy Moss clarifies on ANN | ANN.lu |
Posted on 20-May-2002 22:17 GMT by SlimJim | 186 comments View flat View list |
For those of you lacking the stamina to wade through the 300+ posts-thread
on ANN (named "the next ppc amiga" ), Fleecy Moss, CTO at Amiga Inc,
made a short surprise visit to dispell some rumours about the BPlan-AInc situation (apparently
after getting the thumbs up from AInc:s legal advisors).
Snippets from various posts:
[...] "For AmigaOS4, Amiga said that it will welcome ANY and ALL hardware companies
which develop hardware. We have spent many hours of email with
representatives of bPlan and in all of them, our line has been consistent.
1.We will be very happy to provide bPlan with an OS4 licence, and to have
OS4 running on the Pegasos
2.Amiga compatability within MorphOS comes from illegally obtained source
tapes and we will use all legal process to prevent it from entering the
market.
It is not Amiga Inc preventing AmigaOS4 from running on the Pegasos. As far
as Amiga Inc is concerned, we consider the two issues mentioned above as
being completely separate."
[...]
"Most of you (with an interest in the truth anyway) have already asked the
obvious question. What would Amiga Inc gain from NOT allowing OS4 to run on
the Pegasos. Answer - absolutely nothing.
The licence terms for OS4 are the same for bPlan as for Eyetech and anyone
else who wishes to sell an Amiga product that runs OS4. It is a typical OEM
licence, and presents a level playing field, for producers, for distributors
and for customers. You will find NO exclusive deals done for any product
that carries the Amiga seal of approval, and no favouritism played to any
company or individual.
Any company that says that they approached us and we rejected them is lying.
They may not have liked certain elements of the OEM deal, but it is the same
deal as everyone else is offered."
[...]
"Anything to do with MorphOS and its 'amiga compatability' will be decided,
so it seems, in the courts."
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Fleecy Moss clarifies on ANN : Comment 62 of 186 | ANN.lu |
Posted by From the Archives on 21-May-2002 03:57 GMT | <a href="http://anna.amigazeux.org/comments2.cgi?view=0955547535&category=unmoderated&59">http://www.ann.lu/comments2.cgi?view=0955547535&category=unmoderated&59</a>
More details about MorphOS revealed : Comment 12 of 59
Posted by Ralph Schmidt (Unknown IP) on 12-Apr-2000
In Reply to Comment 11:
First..I prefer to know with whom i'm talking. You act as an
annonymous entity while i play with open carts.
;Rather an amusing statement considering I've never seen you spout off a ;joke or two (except maybe in IRC once).
You probably just don't understand my humour...
;For one thing, instead of offering free software or hardware offer a ;developer fee (heck, Amiga is going to get away with it)
Sorry..but you probably didn't understand what i wrote there.
I described the events which took place between Phase5 and Haage
which lead to the mess up.
;...
;if not flawless under the emulation then why would I want to stick with ;PowerUP/MorphOS as the "standard".
This is not about "standards"...MorphOS will give you
supiror performance over your 680xx if you have a 68040
cyberstormppc and for a 060 it will give you that depending
how many time consuming modules/apps are native.
As the text describes...you get full native performance
devices, libraries....there's no "bridge", "context switch"
or whatever you may call the code which switches from a 68k
task(emulated or not) to a PPC task as every task under
the morphos amiga runs transparent in 68k or ppc ""mode"".
There's no context difference...
;Then please, tell us, oh wise one, how exactly will these other PPC cards ;that are due out shortly work with on board SCSI under WarpOS? For that ;matter, how will MorphOS handle this dilemma as well? Also, what would ;give me the complete satisfaction that P96 v2.0 will be 100% accurate ;under MorphOS? Side note: I won't use CGX as it is just way too unstable, ;even with v4.1.
I were 2 times at MetaBox the last 6 weeks and should have a
certain knowledge about the state of their work and plans which
i surely won't reveal in a public forum as it was a closed meeting.
well..i gave you the facts about the driver issues...now you only
have to combine them with what's announced and what's *real*.
Look..i could also have announced an emulated amigaos booting
may 1999 but that surely leads nowhere as it's no usable product.
Well..about P96...there is NO real gurantee that 68k gfx drivers
work at all *BECAUSE* of the PPC access speeds.
We saw really strange problems caused by such speed synchronisation sideeffects.
But well..if you prefer a 68k P96 over a PPC *native* CyberGraphX
you really have a problem. If 4.1 is way too unstable for you why
don't you help Frank fixing the problems you have for whatever HW
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