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| Posted by Anonymous on 03-Oct-2004 21:07 GMT | In reply to Comment 14 (Elwood):
I don't understand why you talk about the Pegasos 1 instead of the Pegasos 2. The Pegasos 1 was discontinued and is computer history now. Besides, I don't really know what you are talking about here. Genesi was very open about all problems related to their Pegasos 1 hardware, which is essential if you want to build confidence, and they tried many ways to make it work. The April made the Pegasos 1 work fine, without any need of hardcoding cache flushing into the operating systems or any other software workarounds. Linux PPC works FINE on the Pegasos 1. The April solution was mighty expensive, but it worked. However, there is a limit to how much you can "patch", you can for instance not bring functions not there in the first place, and based on the Articia there was a narrow limit of how good the Pegasos could get (the Articia simply can't live up to its promised features and performance in real life use). While the Pegasos 1 was WORKING FINE under these circumstances, it would be extremely expensive to manufacture it that way, especially with G4's, so THEY DISCONTINUED THE PEG1, they developed a Pegasos 2 based on another Northbridge, and they made A GENEROUS UPGRADE OFFER to everyone interested.
Recap:
1) Genesi develops the Pegasos 1. It's not working properly, so they spend lots of time and money to research the errors.
2) They develops the April 1, and offer all their customers to get this patch for free. They are VERY OPEN about all this! However, the Pegasos still can't live up to their demands, so
3) They develop the April 2. They are still very open about it. They even manage to get G4 working now, but only in certain randomly matched CPU/Articia pairs. The situation is not acceptable, which they again are very open about, and they begin developing the Pegasos 2 based on an entirely different NorthBridge. People are offered to upgrade.
4) When the Pegasos 2 gets here, all strange hardware problems is magically gone!
How did Eyetech handle the Amiga One SE situation?
Look, I am not saying that any of the two is "bad" as you put it, but I spot a great difference between them. I will follow with great interest how they will handle THIS situation before I make finally up my mind about "bad" ... |
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