| [News] Plexuscom and Genesi to Cooperate on PegasosPPC for CeBit Release | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 14-Feb-2003 13:52 GMT by Senex | 107 comments
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Paris, France and Taipei Hsien, Taiwan February 14, 2002. Plexuscom a designer and manufactures of broadband Internet access solutions and appliances has reached an agreement with Genesi Sarl to produce and deliver limited quantities of the PegasosPPC computer for release at CeBIT 2003. Genesi and Plexuscom will share a Booth at CeBIT, 12-19 March in Hannover, Germany.
Plexuscom and Genesi to Cooperate on PegasosPPC
Paris, France and Taipei Hsien, Taiwan February 14, 2002. Plexuscom a designer and manufactures of broadband Internet access solutions and appliances has reached an agreement with Genesi Sarl to produce and deliver limited quantities of the PegasosPPC computer for release at CeBIT 2003. Genesi and Plexuscom will share a Booth at CeBIT, 12-19 March in Hannover, Germany.
"We are very pleased to work with Plexuscom on the Pegasos," said Gerald Carda, Chief Technology Officer of Genesi. "Through this partnership, we look forward to greater collaboration in development and marketing efforts. Plexuscom’s expertise in development and manufacturing technologies and Genesi's system design and architecture will be combined to promote an exciting alternative platform for the Micro-ATX marketplace.
The two companies share a common vision. That is, to create products that are designed to achieve exceptional performance while reducing per-unit costs and time-to-market, commented John Tseng, President of Plexuscom. "Our first priority at Plexuscom continues to be our customers, and we are confident that by aligning with a partner like Genesi, we will rapidly expand our position globally and customers will benefit from the performance, flexibility and scalability of these new system capabilities."
The Pegasos MicroATX features
The Pegasos MicroPPC is a small, low power PowerPC motherboard with the following features:
Takes Single or Dual PowerPC RISC CPU (G3 or G4)
Supplied with 600MHz IBM G3
Mai Logic Articia with bplan April2 Northbridge
VIA Southbridge
AGP X2 slot
3 X PCI slots
ATA100 with two channels with up to four ATA devices
3 X Firewire
10/100 Mbit Ethernet
Audio I/O
SPDIF Out
4 X USB
Parallel
Serial
PS2 Keyboard
PS2 Mouse
Riser connector
OpenFirmware based BIOS
Supplied with MorphOS, Debian Linux and Mac-on-Linux
Other operating systems in development.
Genesi and the Pegasos, Innovation for the Future
Genesi is a technology development and system integration engineering company located in Frankfurt, Germany, Paris, France and headquartered in Luxembourg. Genesi also operates through wholly owned subsidiaries in the United Sates and the United Kingdom, Genesi USA Inc. and Genesi UK Ltd. In addition to the Pegasos, Genesi has also developed the new Operating System, MorphOS, for PowerPC microprocessors. Designed for the Pegasos, MorphOS is a highly responsive, low overhead, desktop system, which runs hundreds of different applications.
Plexuscom, A Technology Power House
Plexuscom designs, manufactures, markets and delivers broadband Internet access solutions, Information appliance and USB peripherals.
Plexuscom's extraordinary commitment to customer needs is evidenced by its devotion to the production of customized products for diverse regional markets. Plexuscom is dedicated to the development of easy-to-use, reliable, low-maintenance and affordable high-speed solution for worldwide markets.
Plexuscom's strategic objective is to remain a market leader the development, implementation, supply and support of broadband Internet access, information appliance solutions, and USB peripherals.
Contact Information:
Plexuscom Contact:
John Tseng
john.tseng@plexuscom.com.tw
www.plexuscom.com
Genesi Contact:
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck
bbrv@genesi.lu
www.pegasosppc.com
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| Posted by Janne Sirén on 14-Feb-2003 17:11 GMT | In reply to Comment 16 (Janne Sirén):
>But most importantly, you are free to discuss MorphOS here since the site
>owner, Christian Kemp, has decided that ANN covers MorphOS. I myself very
>much agree with Christian's opinion.
Forgot to add here that this is also why Pegasos is covered here. This is just to clarify, since Pegasos' relation to Amiga is admittedly less than MorphOS's relation to Amiga (but more than Windows XP's relation to Amiga via UAE, since Pegasos was designed with MorphOS in mind, whereas Windows XP was not designed with UAE in mind)...
These are complex issues when taken to detailed level, but I believe that common sense will prevail over trademark loyalty. I believe my analogy of comparing AmigaOS to UNIX, both now relatively widely cloned trademarked operating systems, to be sound and accurate. Linux and NetBSD don't have to own the trademarks to own the common distinction of being in the "*nix" family of operating systems. MorphOS and AROS have a similar relation to AmigaOS, and therefore it is logical for ANN to cover all of them (and hardware that is designed and sold specially for them).
One could argue that Pegasos is in fact more Amiga related in a technological point of view, since MorphOS was designed with AmigaOS in mind, and Pegasos was designed with MorphOS in mind, but AmigaOne was designed only with MAI's chipset evaluation in mind (and only later some stuff added for desktop us).
But I won't go there. Instead, I'll use common sense and try not to overanalyze these things. With this in mind, it is clear to me that there are three Amiga-related operating system offerings and currently two hardware platforms tailored for those (in addition to the Classic Amiga product family). There is also a plethora of past, current and future software, accessories and possible spinoff products that are related to those.
And this is what, in my opinion, a site for this community should be about. Christian and his moderators are mostly doing a fabulous job covering this, in my opinion. Thanks, guys! |
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