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From:Jim Cadwallader
Date:23 Jun 2001 at 01:56:35
Subject:Re: Stop!!!!

Hello Matt

On 22-Jun-01, you wrote:

> 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.

Sure, but that kinda skims alongside the point I made, maybe the decision
has elements of a need to be seen to keep/have control of your own OS!?

Regards
Jim Cad*

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