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From:Matt Sealey
Date:22 Jun 2001 at 21:33:03
Subject:Re: Stop!!!!

Hello Jim

On 23-Jun-01, you wrote:

> Plus, I think that the MorphOS solution would have tempted people to upgrade
> their near 10 year old kit again. The clean break approach may also be
> about regaining market image. MorphOS would have been cool to us, but it is
> not "cool" to demonstrate to others what is basically super-hacked 9 year
> old kit.

MorphOS is intended to run on the same bPlan "zico" hardware as the
AmigaDE eventually will/should. There is a clean break here: but the
phase5 cards are being used as a testbed. With a sufficiently decent
HAL, PCI to MorphOS is PCI - so drivers developer for Voodoo or
Matrox cards on a Prometheus, or G-Rex, would work on the bPlan
board too.

And we wouldn't have to delay the bPlan board to get it. Do you understand
the economics of this? It takes time to create an OS of MorphOS' stature,
time which Amiga do not have and therefore stature which AmigaOS 4.x
will not have.

>> ,,, some people wanted a desktop environment, but
>> we all knew deep down that we'd have a Handspring Visor
>> or an Internet Fridge instead.
>
> Yeah, I agree. I had that thought in the back of my skull. I'm glad there
> will be a new officially sanctioned desktop.

Personally I wish they'd decided they wanted a desktop 18 months ago
to save us (as I said at the start of my rant) another 18 month
development cycle that we have to wait for..

Thanks



Matt Sealey <matt@kittycat.co.uk>
Website http://www.kittycat.co.uk

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