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From:emptystate
Date:6 Jun 2001 at 11:09:47
Subject:Re: cost of amigaone ?

> >Until we actually see one powered up and running something
Amiga-ish
> >it'll stay in the realms of Boxer-ology. (How many times have we
> >seen that motherboard at shows and in magazines ?)
>
> Since Alan announced it? He has been at all the shows since the
first board
> was put together. But, unlike other projects in the Amiga world, the
> AmigaOne hasn't been "on the drawing board" for 5 years.

My point was: AFAIK no member of the public has seen a Boxer running,
no member of the public has seen an AmigaOne running.

> >I wouldn't hold my breath either because even when it is available,
> >how much software will actually work on it ? Probably a lot less
> >than on my PPC card.
>
> Hopefully our third party developer group will remedy that issue
> before it becomes one, IF they see people willing to buy the
> AmigaOne instead of slagging it off.

Like any other Amigan I will be most joyous when the AmigaOne becomes
a reality. However, there seemed to be a lot more 3rd party developers
at the time of the launch of Phase 5's "PowerUP" PPC boards but we
still haven't seen fully PPC versions of important stuff like
Wordworth, Pagestream, PPaint (well not those products exactly but
you get my point).

I'll try to remain optimistic, but seeing is believing.

> >More support is planned when OS 4.2 comes out (what is 4.1 ?)
> >but seeing as no one is actually working on OS 4.2 yet we will
> >have to guess our own timelines. (Or is AI going to start giving us
> >regular Executive Updates again ?)
>
> How do you know what is or isn't being worked on?

Who knows ?
Where is AI telling us in an official capacity ?
All we're getting is snippets of info via mailing lists.
If AI doesn't want to say, then fair enough but who can blame
a culture of rumour existing ?

> Please tell us your inside source for this information. You are
> posting facts right? :)
>
> >hmmmmmmmmmmm...
>
> That is what I say every time I see a post from someone anonymous
> who claims to have inside information. :)

I've never claimed to have inside information.
In the above comments I was speculating, just like 2/3 of the posts in
this list.

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