| [News] Eyetech talks about Terrasoft | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 12-Mar-2003 05:59 GMT by Christian Kemp (Edited on 2003-03-12 08:46:13 GMT by Christian Kemp) | 146 comments
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An anonymous reader links to this message by Alan Redhouse talking about Terrasoft, a possible 1.3Ghz CPU module, and XE delivery dates.
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| Eyetech talks about Terrasoft : Comment 136 of 146 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by ehaines on 13-Mar-2003 19:47 GMT | In reply to Comment 131 (Christophe Decanini):
Nice response, Christophe...no way to reply in kind without this turning into
one of those ever-increasing monster post contests, so just some points:
> I don't blame Eyetech or Hyperion for the problems they had. I just say that > Ben was far from reasonnable when he announced emminent OS4 relaese at
> several occasions.
Yes, and Hyperion say they learned from that, which is why they've only said
"when it's done" for quite some time now. Learning from mistakes is good....
> I think that you are misinterpreting Genesi plans here.
> The aim is to sell thousands of thousands but not in the Amiga community.
If they changed their plan, fine, maybe they should just come out and say
so because they used to do a very good impression that they were aiming to
get the Pegasos into as wide distribution as possible. Then came the infamous
"we're doooooooomed, Linux will kill us both unless we cooperate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
announcement.
> > "I mean, even now, can I just go to, say, www.softhut.com and order a copy
> > for my CyberstormPPC? Nope."
> You can order a Pegasos with MorphOS now and get it soon.
That's not what I asked. :) Anyway there's no way I'll really believe
that anything will be released "soon"...Eyetech didn't charge me until
my AmigaOne was physically produced and on its way to me, just like they
said they would do.
> A commercial release would not make any sense as the HW is very outdated
> compared to the Pegasos and that Genesi better concentrate on Pegasos
> support.
That makes some sense. Somehow I missed Genesi actually announcing this
though. I suppose it would be trollish to point out that OS4 still is
having the CyberstormPPC release? At least it's nice to support those
users who bought the "classic" PPC hardware, which I seem to remember
bPlan at the time saying about MorphOS, even if they've apparently dropped
that idea now.
> At the end you see that BBRV were right: the desktop solution based on
> articia chip that sold the most so far is the Pegasos (No MAI without April).
No, Bill wasn't right; AmigaOnes don't have any April chip and they work. They
did need fixing but it was just some wires and not a chip with a supposedly
"clever" name. :)
> Have you read about the posts on the Amigaone ML saying that Thendic business > would collapse because their company is a SARL ?
Nope. I don't read that ML much anymore. I'm afraid I don't even know what
that means.
> Have you seen the post of Alan saying that the April is nonsense etc.
Which it pretty much is. Not that some fix wasn't necessary, but the
attempt to make a huge fuss about it was.
> The orcs are everywhere. So why target ANN first ?
Because it's popular and has a significant presense?
> I think that there are much more Pegasos out there than Amigaone so far.
Really? I'm sure Genesi would mention it if the sales were high.
> Plus I don't consider the AmigaOnes as being the right slution to use
> Amiga software.
At the moment, no.
> The Pegasos user groups / developer groups members may raise their hands
> very soon. At 500$ the Teron/Pegasos can not sell forever.
Eh? The Pegasos is custom designed, right? The AmigaOne is a rebranded
Teron board, right? Except that there aren't really any Teron boards as
far as I can tell, not released branded as "Teron" anyway.
> This is why I'am glad that Genesi move to a more modern design.
But the Pegasos was all-singing and all-dancing and better and smaller than
the AmigaOne. Now it's, "Never mind, we'll have a more modern design"?
> The reality is that Genesi delivered while Eyetech/Hyperion is still
> struggling to do so.
I'm sorry but I still can't agree with that, except in a very limited sense.
There was really never any public release in the traditional sense. Just
"Betatesters" and the current limited pre-order thing. Hopefully that will
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