Amiga One or Pegasos?

[PulsatingQuasar]

Because they made Amiga hardware.

AFAIK

They went bankrupt on the Mac side of their business. Two accelerators for the Mac took a long time to be cleared by Apple.
Considerable time and money went into those products and when no money was made, it was over.

[Kay]

> Just like to pose a question I need help with. Which is better in the longterm, Amiga One or a
> Pegasos board? I am looking to migrate (once again!) from the PC having come from an Amiga
> background (A4000, etc).

I'd go with the AmigaOne, as:
* It will probably be the only one capable of running AmigaOS (at least legally). I'm sure MOS will turn out okay as well, but the AmigaOS4 featurelist (as well as the development team) impresses me quite a bit more. I'm sure someone here can point you in the direction of the MOS featurelist so you can make your own comparison.
* I think the AmigaOne, having a well-known brand name, has a better chance at market penetration.

There are quite a few of us around here who have already ordered an AmigaOne board, but we are always looking for more people ;-). You are most welcome to join us. After many years of stagnation, the Amiga is finally getting a significant upgrade. Together we can make this work. :-D

Kay

[Lando]

HMetal wrote:
@Lando

This thread was going well until you started to make it about anything but the products themselves.

Go and troll somewhere else.

I don't "troll" anywhere Ray, here included.  And I resent you insinuating otherwise.  I stated facts.

However it seems to be "en vogue" these days to label anyone who disagrees with you, or who's arguments you have no answer for, a "troll" and thus feel justified in dismissing everything they have to say out of hand.

Anyway, I'm through with this discussion.  "Yawn" away... I'm sure all that activity at AInc must make you really tired...

[AmiGR]

Experience != Expertise.
--

In Gerald's case it IS expertise. He managed to:
1) Design dual CPU cards that include SCSI on
an extremely small board with 11 layers.
2) He managed to design the Pegasos, prove to
MAI that there are bugs they didn't even know about
and fix them, under MAI's name (the fix Eyetech used)
and Genesi's (April 1&2).
3) He is known to IBM's production managers by name.

Yes... He *IS* an expert.

[AmiGR]

You wish, the Teron PX (AmigaONE) was designed by Mentor Arc Incorporated (MAI) as an evaluation
board for the ArticiaS chipset. It later envolved into
the first Pegasos prototype and the current revision
Eyetech sells. IBM didn't touch that board.

[downix]

I wonder who came up with that, although I can imagine...

I know where the thought originated, with me.  But I did not say that ExecSG is based or taken from OpenVMS, only that the screenshot and data about it thus far reminded me of DEC's port of VMS to the Alpha and how they handled legacy code.  

And take that as a compliment, I like VMS.

[HMetal]

Lando wrote:
I don't "troll" anywhere Ray, here included.  And I resent you insinuating otherwise.  I stated facts.

Your opinion-based "facts" are nothing more than that -- opinion -- and whether they are based on your perception of a situation or otherwise, they have no place in a discussion about hardware and software merits.

[JoannaK]

@hmetal
Sounds like you are trying to give impression you are only one around knowing *The Truth* and thus other peoples opinions have no value. Sorry, you ain't the one, not even close...  :-D  :-D  

And before someone comments.. Neither am I.. Nor I claim to be   :-P

[HMetal]

@JoannaK

Well JoannaK, since I work for Amiga Inc and I know these things, yes, I guess you could say I DO know "The Truth" and I know more than anyone who comes to this topic could ever bring to it -- except for maybe Bill or Fleecy themelves.  So, if that was some attempt on your part to belittle me and amuse the onlookers, you just failed.

Regardless..  It really, in this instance, doesn't matter who knows what or what the opinion is on Amiga Inc., it still has no bearing on this topic.

In the end it is just another childish excuse/attempt to beat on Amiga Inc.

[AmiGR]

To *BELITTLE* you? Who do you think you are?
Bill Gates?

[HMetal]

AmiGR wrote:
To *BELITTLE* you? Who do you think you are?
Bill Gates?

Splitting hairs are we?  Go look up the meaning of "belittle."  My comment makes no inference of being better than anyone.

[JoannaK]

@HMetal
I need only to point out and remind people about the facts.. AmigaInc is quite capable of making fools of themselves and their partners on their own.  :-P

[HMetal]

@Joanna

:roll: Incorrect and irrelevant to the topic.

[JoannaK]

@HMetal
My reply was directly connected to your previous accusation:

In the end it is just another childish excuse/attempt to beat on Amiga Inc.

So if AmigaInc's fumbles are off topic it was you who started it.

Personally, I consider this Aone-vs.Pegasos discussion quite pointeless at the moment cause Amiga-One has no teeth in comparision. Only when OS4 appears Aone has any value to me cause  I don't need any more  Linux systems (especially with such high price). What have I seen about MorphOS gives me clear impression  it could become  nice system with some finetuning and polishing.

So I have decided to get one of those 299$ machines (350Euros including Vat for europeans) Genesi are offering and making something I like to use. Currently I'm waiting mobo+cpu to arrive and then I need to find nice case and Ati-Radeon. All other parts I'm having here.

[Spidey]

Hey Spidey, Nice Avvy !!

Thanks Agafaster! :-D :-D
Still nice to hear!!

Also a nice explaining about the PCI/AGP slot! :-)

Spidey

[Spidey]

Thanks bud!

You're welcome friend :-D

Spidey