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| Posted on 19-Feb-2003 22:38 GMT by Whatever (Edited on 2003-02-20 14:16:56 GMT by Christophe Decanini) | 86 comments
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Amiga-News.de have interviewed Ben Hermans. Read the complete interview here.
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| Posted by Alex Klauke on 21-Feb-2003 16:33 GMT | In reply to Comment 77 (Alkis Tsapanidis):
Neither you nor me does know the truth, but imagine this scenario:
The AmigaOne at that time was said to ship with a A1200 connector and connecting an A1200 was
mandatory so that a 68k and the chipsets were accessible. So the schedule for bringing AmigaOS onto
that system with a PPC native Exec was simply just a recompile of Exec for PPC, adding the already
finished Roadshow and FFS2 components, a little bit of beta testing and there you go (even if it may have
been a little naive to think this could work out). So nearly nothing to do compared to the effort Hyperion
now is thankfully taking. At least it seems not impossible within 3-4 months time to achieve (the McEwen
statement you quote was June 01 IIRC, planned release October). Let it slip to December, we (the
ommunity) would not have had a problem. They had just found a new VC so the money was there. Then
after June the hardware was not ready (Escena), the VC went south, so no hardware, no money any more
and not an exceptional good possibility to fullfill the promise then. Maybe they should have told us what
kind of problems they were facing. Maybe not. I'm not the one to judge. Thankfully.
OTOH the Pegasos was once to be released together with MorphOS 1.0 at about the same time in
autumn 2001, I remember a May 2001 interview of bPlan. It obviously did not and I did never blame
bPlan for. But yet at that time we were making bets who would be first to release a non beta system.
Noone has on February 21, 2003.
Ciao, Alex |
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