| [News] Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 03-Dec-2002 10:59 GMT by Senex (Martin Heine) (Edited on 2002-12-03 12:22:47 GMT by Christian Kemp) | 132 comments
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Paris, France – December 3, 2002. bplan GmbH and Thendic-France SARL, both soon to be acquired by Genesi S.à.r.l. of Luxembourg (www.morphos-news.de -- 22 November), are pleased to announce the development and final certification of the April™ chip. The April chip adds new functionality to the successful Articia chipset developed by Mai Logic Incorporated of Fremont, California. Mai Logic, an innovative technology design house of integrated circuits/systems, worked with bplan to develop the first prototype of the April chip. The April chip enables Mai and Genesi licensees to offer PPC based computer systems that can compete in today’s quickly evolving IT environment. The Pegasos (www.pegasosppc.com) will be the first platform to offer the April chip and will be commercially launched at the Amiga+Retro Computing 2002 in Aachen, Germany 7-8 December (www.amiga-messe.de).
"We were very pleased to have worked with Mai Logic on this development," said Gerald Carda, Chief Technology Officer of bplan. "Through our collaborative efforts, we were able to leverage Mai’s expertise in PowerPC-based chipset/system development and manufacturing technologies and our own knowledge of system design, architecture and software to bring the April development to a successful conclusion. The Articia and April can be used together to promote an exciting alternative platform for the desktop, portable computer and sub-notebook marketplace.”
The Pegasos incorporates the Articia and April chip with either a PowerPC™ 750FX processor or a G4 processor, operating at 800 MHz or higher. A dual CPU module release is planned for 2003. In addition to the standard enterprise applications and other state-of-the-art functions to satisfy the most demanding users, the Pegasos platform will offer many state of the art functions. For example, smart card and bar code modules have been prepared to work with the platform. A handheld version of the Pegasos is currently being developed with a planned release in 2003.
Genesi, Innovation for the Future
MorphOS is also being launched at Amiga+Retro Computing 2002. MorphOS is a new operating system for PowerPC RISC microprocessors and was developed for the Pegasos. MorphOS runs on the Pegasos and on the Mai Logic Teron CX and Teron PX evaluation boards. MorphOS functions on 603e, 604e, 750 and 7400 (Original G4) PowerPC processors. In the future MorphOS will also run on other Open Firmware based PowerPC machines. Genesi will also be release an internally developed CD-bootable version of DebianPPC at Amiga+Retro Computing 2002 for Linux users. Additionally, a first quarter 2003 Pegasos release of OpenBSD is expected.
The Pegasos on sale NOW!
The Pegasos can now be purchased through any of the following vendors:
UK http://www.pegasos-uk.com
Germany http://www.vesalia.de
Germany http://www.kdh-shop24.de
France http://www.aps.fr
France http://www.pegasos-france.com
Holland http://www.compcity.nl
Sweden http://www.ggsdata.se
Poland http://efunzine.pegasos.pl/
Poland http://www.matay.pl/
Suisse http://www.pegasos-suisse.com
Spain http://www.amigasuperbit.com
Italy http://www.virtualworks.it
And coming soon to:
USA http://www.aztekcomputers.com/
Australia/NZ http://www.boinghosting.com.au/
Articia™ is the registered trademarks or trademarks of Mai Logic Incorporated. April™ is the registered trademark of Genesi S.à.r.l.
For more information, please contact:
Raquel Velasco or Bill Buck
+33 1 43662800
bplan@thendic-france.com
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 1 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Senex on 03-Dec-2002 10:00 GMT | | Great, now we finally have a kind of "custom chips" again. ;-) |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 2 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Peter Gordon on 03-Dec-2002 10:01 GMT | "The April chip enables Mai and Genesi licensees to offer PPC based computer systems that can compete in today’s quickly evolving IT environment."
Right. But what does it ACTUALLY DO? |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 3 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Leif on 03-Dec-2002 10:05 GMT | In reply to Comment 2 (Peter Gordon):
@Gordon
Exactly my thought. An announcement about.. what ?? |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 4 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Alfred Schwarz on 03-Dec-2002 10:10 GMT | In reply to Comment 3 (Leif):
Right, /me asks the same: What is it doing and *how* will it be integrated in Pegasus, I mean, do all already produces Pegasos have this chip onboard, will it be on a CPU module or what?!
Ciao, Alfred |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 5 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Tex on 03-Dec-2002 10:11 GMT | so April chipset will be launched with next Pegasos production ?
What about with actual machines ? |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 6 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Leif on 03-Dec-2002 10:14 GMT | In reply to Comment 3 (Leif):
My guesses about the chip:
1. It replaces some components on the board with integrated ones.
(to save space/cost)
2. It has some new interfaces special for the barcode/smartcard stuff.
3. It contains a unique identification number.
And some crazy guesses about the chip:
1. It incorporates some kind of video-toaster interface.
2. A geekport :)
3. They have sqeesed in two 500MHz Caipirhinas in it.
4.. okey its enough :) |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 7 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Anonymous on 03-Dec-2002 10:16 GMT | | Looks like April fools to me ;) |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 8 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by catohagen on 03-Dec-2002 10:17 GMT | an announcement about a new chip, and no mention about what the chip do and then
add 15+20 links where to buy and more babble about morphos is new and runs on
ppc, as nobody here knew that before :)
what does the chip do ? better to send that info to Ann and add a link
for interested users, to all the info about Thendic and Genesi..and morphos
Its an insult to ann to flood the same backgruond info about mos & thendic
everytime there is an announcement...
What if the background info about amiga inc where submitted everytime there
was a new execute update ?
i dont know.....just my opinion... |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 9 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Leif on 03-Dec-2002 10:19 GMT | In reply to Comment 8 (catohagen):
What background info ? |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 10 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by catohagen on 03-Dec-2002 10:26 GMT | In reply to Comment 9 (Leif):
i dont know, something like
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 11 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by SlimJim on 03-Dec-2002 10:26 GMT | What does this revolutionary April Chip actually DO?
... oh, that question had already been asked. Strange announcement.
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SlimJim |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 12 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Sam Smith on 03-Dec-2002 10:27 GMT | In reply to Comment 2 (Peter Gordon):
It makes news articles.
April? Naming things after triple A chipset chips then?
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Sam |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 13 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Leif on 03-Dec-2002 10:28 GMT | In reply to Comment 10 (catohagen):
You forgot to write the "since '85" part :) |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 14 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Peter Gordon on 03-Dec-2002 10:36 GMT | In reply to Comment 12 (Sam Smith):
No! This isn't the April chip, its the April™ chip. Which... sort of... does... things. Its really good, anyway :) |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 15 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Lennart Fridén on 03-Dec-2002 10:44 GMT | | so they can announce the chip but they can't be arsed to tell us what it's good for. Weeee! Some news... |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 16 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by freud on 03-Dec-2002 10:45 GMT | In reply to Comment 2 (Peter Gordon):
^"Right. But what does it ACTUALLY DO?"
It fixes the bug in the Articia chip? Ofcourse as far as I can guess :-) |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 17 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Santa on 03-Dec-2002 10:46 GMT | In reply to Comment 2 (Peter Gordon):
You know, it the enhanced version of the March TM chip. So you can expect the same functionality plus some additional features.
Don't rush out know, because there are rumours from insiders that there will be a Mai chip available in about 6 months offering even more features at a higher clock rate.
... or whatever. Who needs this stupid press releases anyway? We all know where customs chips lead, so why bother?
Santa |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 18 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by tarbos on 03-Dec-2002 10:47 GMT | Madness!
I hope you people realize what that means:
Pegasos with 800MHz G3 - sub 500EUR
AmigaOne with 700MHz G3 - 725EUR
That's a whopping difference of 50% for a
Computer with "the name" and a slower CPU...
Go Pegasos!
I already know my Christmas present. :-)) |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 19 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Leif on 03-Dec-2002 10:49 GMT | In reply to Comment 18 (tarbos):
And you know mine.. thanks in advance! |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 20 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by amigammc on 03-Dec-2002 11:03 GMT | In reply to Comment 2 (Peter Gordon):
>Right. But what does it ACTUALLY DO?
Oh, good. For a moment I thought I was the only one who didn't understand what the announcement was about. |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 21 of 132 | ANN.lu |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 22 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by eK on 03-Dec-2002 11:17 GMT | | I smell TCPA. Ick. |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 23 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by AprilShowers on 03-Dec-2002 11:25 GMT | Is it an OS piracy dongle?
Is it an AGA compatibility chip?
Is it a bridge chip?
Is it meant to make us all ask "what is it?"? |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 24 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Sam Smith on 03-Dec-2002 11:27 GMT | In reply to Comment 18 (tarbos):
But there is the small matter of OS4.
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Sam |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 25 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by DDJ on 03-Dec-2002 11:27 GMT | | I realy want my Pegasos :) |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 26 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Mirror on 03-Dec-2002 11:28 GMT | | Yawn.... Morphozzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..... Yawn Pegasozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 27 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Andrea Maniero on 03-Dec-2002 11:31 GMT | IMHO April might be the much rumored fix to the Articia bug. But I'm not the one that can clarify such a thing.
Kind regards,
Andrea |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 28 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by JoannaK on 03-Dec-2002 11:40 GMT | In reply to Comment 23 (AprilShowers):
I assume it's a good way to turn peoples attention to Aachnen ... It's on this weekend, and I'm quite sure they have something interesting to show there.
(Would like to go, but *** flights are so damn expensive.. 400Euros from helsinki to Duss...) |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 29 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Miky060 on 03-Dec-2002 11:49 GMT | Hey Thenic!!!!!!!!
YUHUUUUUH!!!!!!!!!!!
Why don't you answer to this simple question as always!?!?
WE ARE WAITING AN ANSWER, A VERY SIMPLE ANSWER TO A VERY SIMPLE QUESTION: What does this chip do!? Is only a fix for the famous bug in Articia???? If so why don't a new fixed Articia Chip as you have always told us all???
Another question: I have read about a G3@800, does it means that my peggy ordered in far 7 october and that till today has not yet arrived will be a G3@800 one?? If I want a G4 instead? Have I always to wait?
Thanks for the answer that SURELLY will arrive. |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 30 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Velcro on 03-Dec-2002 11:51 GMT | | HA HA. These people really ARE getting desparate. |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 31 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 03-Dec-2002 11:55 GMT | In reply to Comment 27 (Andrea Maniero):
No.
Whatever this April chip does, it is not a rename for the Articia S. |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 32 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Mirror on 03-Dec-2002 12:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 31 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion):
May be its a Morphos Stability Chip also the release date :) |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 33 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by A.Scott Pringle on 03-Dec-2002 12:05 GMT | I have heard that information this will be released publicly this weekend. Be patient.
take care |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 34 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by JoannaK on 03-Dec-2002 12:18 GMT | In reply to Comment 31 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion):
Do YOU know what it is? Or are you just making blind quesses?
It may well be something more important than you even can imagine :) |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 35 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by SlimJim on 03-Dec-2002 12:22 GMT | This was a quite amusing "news-item" I must say. Now everyone will discuss this
chip, speculating on what it does for the Pegasos. More free press for them. If
Thendic planned this completely uniformative release to turn out like this, I bow
to them - they are truly the masters of PR.
(...some would use the term 'hype' instead of 'PR'above, but let's go the friendly
route for now). ;-)
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SlimJim |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 36 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Anonymous on 03-Dec-2002 12:41 GMT | Thendic...your press releases are getting worse than ever (and that says a lot).
What does this chip do..?
Why do a press release talking about a chip but with no description of its purpose.
Is this chip fitted on allready sold Pegasos'es?
You're Aprils fool... |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 37 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by David Scheibler on 03-Dec-2002 12:43 GMT | In reply to Comment 36 (Anonymous):
Just wait for the Aachen fair ;) |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 38 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Anonymous on 03-Dec-2002 12:58 GMT | In reply to Comment 37 (David Scheibler):
If we should have to wait for the Aachen fair, so should Thendic/Gensi/Viscorp/Whatever-they're-called-these-days. |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 39 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by CnlPepper on 03-Dec-2002 13:07 GMT | My bet is this "amazing" chip is just their fix for the bug in the Articia chipset and they just saw another convinient excuse to adivertise their stupid name for free on ann/amiga.org.
Looks like the typical hot air, drivel from Genisi/Thendic/Bill.
Why anyone would want to buy something from someone so obviously untrustworthy is beyond me.
CnlPepper - Who has become fed up with similar pointless "news" pieces from this company... |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 40 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Akaru on 03-Dec-2002 13:09 GMT | Tee hee, its like when Amiga say hey man we got a really good announcement to make at the next big show man and its big, and then it turns out to be that they got this new coffee machine that makes latte's and frapachinos and everything in the office.
Please await whilst I bait my breath. |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 41 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Ralph on 03-Dec-2002 13:09 GMT | | Did anyone notice that MorphOS is currently limited to PPC 7400 and below? So it might be nice to have the Pegasos running with one of the recent PPC chips @800 MHz - but not with MorphOS. Therefore until MorphOS has been adapted to the newer chips, one has to go with Linux or stick to old versions of the PPC (which means either a speed penalty later or a additional costs when upgrading to another CPU board...) |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 42 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 03-Dec-2002 13:18 GMT | In reply to Comment 39 (CnlPepper):
Open your eyes and look at the right part of the page you're actually readingg
right now. It's *NOT* for free.
And for more info... Wait for the Aachen show, ie. this weekend. |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 43 of 132 | ANN.lu |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 44 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by CnlPepper on 03-Dec-2002 13:21 GMT | In reply to Comment 42 (Alkis Tsapanidis):
Fine, EXTRA ADVERTISING.
CnlPepper - As its obvious their advert wasn't drawing attention.... :p |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 45 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Phendic Press Department on 03-Dec-2002 13:21 GMT | Paris, France – December 3, 2002. Biplane GBH and Phendic-France SARL, both soon to be acquired by Ginseng. of Borg, are pleased to announce the development and final certification of the April chip.
The April chipset is a quantum leap in computing technology and brings the following features to the Pegasus motherboard:
Nano-Technology. The April chip acts as a barracks for an army of nanobots that will actively repair any damage to the motherboard or its components within minutes.
RAM doubling. Due to its advanced memory compression algorithms, the April chip effectively doubles any RAM inserted into the Pegasus’ RAM slots. You can now insert a cheap 512mb DIMM and get a full 1Gb of memory available running at twice the speed!
On-board Graphics. This amazing chip also replaces your existing, expensive AGP graphics card with it’s own ground-breaking custom 4D Graphics engine. Now you can run Quake II at a resolution of 5120x3840 in 256 bit colour at a whopping 1000 fps. You don’t even need to connect your monitor to the motherboard as the display will be “beamed” directly to the nearest monitor/TV to the computer.
Plasmawire. We are proud to announce that the April chip will also upgrade the existing Firewire slot to the new Plasmawire standard which can transfer data faster than ever before so that data reaches it’s source before it is even sent! Yes, that’s right! Using Time Distortion technology borrowed from the Time Lords of Galifrey, the April chip looks forward in time to see what data you intend to send, them moves backwards in time and sends it resulting in you transmitting the data before you even know you want to send it in the first place!!! Amazing.
Wireless Networking. You asked for it and now you have it! Thanks to the April chip you can now control your electric toothbrush directly from MorfOS. Our included software update automatically starts your toothbrush in the morning, causes it to jump from the bathroom cabinet, wander across the floor, hop into bed with you and brush your teeth wile you are asleep!!! Contrary to certain rumours circulating that a bug in MorfOS causes the toothbrush to mistake another orifice for your mouth, this is simply not true. The fact that Ralph’s hemorrhoids mysteriously vanished while he was betatesting the software and that half his teeth are now missing is just coincidence.
Regards,
Darrin
Phendic’s non-existent Press Officer ;-) |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 46 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Anonymous on 03-Dec-2002 13:26 GMT | | i can bet, that all this complain come from people ho BTW never will buy a Pegasos or used MOS, SAD people, wait for news and bugfix in AONE hardware, just leave the Genesi,MOS,Pegasos and future users in peace, PLEASE. |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 47 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Peter Gordon on 03-Dec-2002 13:30 GMT | In reply to Comment 46 (Anonymous):
But they've posted an announcement hailing a new chip, but don't say what the chip does. I can't speak for anyone else here, but if Eyetech did that, I would have taken the piss just the same! Its hilarious! |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 48 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Hagge on 03-Dec-2002 13:41 GMT | In reply to Comment 18 (tarbos):
It's 600MHz, and there did you got those prices from? |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 49 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Hagge on 03-Dec-2002 13:42 GMT | In reply to Comment 18 (tarbos):
oh, and you forgot there is no reason at all to go ppc if you can't run macos x / amigaos on it. |
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| Genesi announces completion of April (TM) chip for Pegasos : Comment 50 of 132 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by JoannaK on 03-Dec-2002 13:42 GMT | In reply to Comment 47 (Peter Gordon):
Well. actually I consider this 4-day early info a teaser. They are trying to get maximal amount of interest to that Aachen happening, and IMHO they seem to be succeeding quite well.. So it's not a bad plan.
If they DON'T release this info on Aachen next weekend, then I'm getting nasty. |
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