[News] SciTech Software Inc. announcement | ANN.lu |
Posted on 18-Feb-2003 21:36 GMT by Gareth Knight | 195 comments View flat View list |
SciTech Software Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment VOF are pleased to announce they have enterered into a strategic partnership which will see SciTech's SNAP(tm) technology integrated into AmigaOS 4.x which is currently under development by Hyperion for PPC based systems.
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SciTech Software Inc. announcement : Comment 129 of 195 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 19-Feb-2003 11:07 GMT | In reply to Comment 119 (Kelly Samel): Openfirmware is not a magical substitute for hardware documentation.
All a firmware does is to initialise the hardware upon power-up.
We would still need to get access to all required hardware documentation and firmware extensions.
The Pegasos is a propietary design which uses proprietary chips from a variety of vendors.
Sure, we would probably come up with something from say the Linux sources.
(Incidentally, is this the reason why Pegasos Betatesters I/II are denied access to a Linux distro for the Pegasos even when they request it specifically:
http://www.amigaimpact.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Forum&file=viewthread&tid=860&forum=2
But it would be a far from ideal solution.
Supporting the hardware from a company which has a product which is directly competitive with OS 4, you can expect zero cooperation and various countermeasures.
I'm not likely to forget the pains Phase 5 went to with the BlizzardPPC to make sure WarpOS wouldn't run on it.
The Pegasos firmware apparently has "extensions (c) Ralph Schmidt".
I can't say this is particularly reassuring.
We have no desire to become involved in a "firmware arms race" whereby various countermeasures would be implemented in the Pegasos firmware to prevent OS 4 from running, which we would subsequently need to work around only to find more measures in our path with the next update of the firmware. |
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