| [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 16-Feb-2003 09:17 GMT | In reply to Comment 45 (alan buxey):
>1) Linux isnt *nix - as anyone with 1/2 clue would know
>(*nix is the real stuff, * doesnt mean wildcard match,
>its a 'not UNIX' copyright clause)
If you are referring to my comments, I would like to make a clarification.
a) I didn't think, nor have I ever thought, * as a wildcard in *nix, but a way of "saying the name" without "breaking the copyright". Not so different as what we are facing today in the Amiga community. I have used the word *miga also to make this same point - MorphOS doesn't match with *miga wildcard, but *miga does allow one to call something "Amiga" without calling it Amiga.
b) I'm not saying GNU/Linux is UNIX. Heck, GNU stands for GNU is Not Unix or something. But I'm saying that to the majority of computer enthusiasts the word UNIX would seem to mean a larger family of related operating systems. Surely there are people who are pedantic and disagree, but as a common sense tool, the word UNIX does invoke the association with Solaris, NetBSD, Linux etc. (not all of them UNIX) in many people - and in my opinion, rightly so.
c) With a) and b) in mind, we certainly have an analogy of UNIX and AmigaOS (or Amiga here for brevity). Both are cloned operating systems. These clones are closely related to the original in many ways. Coding to UNIX is in many ways like coding to Linux (lets not get into details here folks), just like coding to AROS or MorphOS is much like coding to AmigaOS. I believe a valid analogy exists, and the years of experience in the UNIX world in clone operating systems is something we can draw some valuable lessons from.
That was my point. If you want to turn it into a discussion of what is or is not UNIX, feel free. But you would be missing my point and the way how the world UNIX is perceived by a wider audience - and how that perception might help us define for ourselves what we consider as Amiga. |
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