"Christmas is only 2 months away."
Oh sh!t Ive got presents to buy.
"Producing the CD and boxes does take some time."
4 days.
"Hyperion haven't even shown a working alpha on a CS_PPC (emphasis on PPC)."
To the public.
"Big project NEVER work by just putting some (tested) pieces together."
Duuh thats why you have integration testing. ;-)
"Decent betatesting of "the real thing" does take months (thats what MOS is doing
right now)."
Well depends, if it has been betatested in a sandbox
to a level of component reliability and everyone was working to the same spec then there is a good chance that the only task left is integration testing and bug testing.
"Hyperion are not the kind of guys that would keep something working hidden
esspacially not in a competetive situation. "
Speculation and not fact.
"Hyperion has been talking about
OS4 in December, and it has been quite a while since Ben talked about OS4_4_A1
in December."
Its been a long while since Ben talked about anything in public other than navel gazing with trolls over minute technical details on ANN.
"A somewhat working alpha running on exactly one A4000-config is the best I would
expect to see in Aachen (early December)."
You may be right. You may be wrong. I don't expect to see a production quality MorphOS in December in the same way as I didnt expect to say it in May ( prior deadline ) or in February ( prior deadline ) or....
"Well the TeronCX HAS existed some time before the A1, and it was even running
Linux."
Oh yes, it ran Linux but how well and for how long? Anyone else remember?
" Removing a few HW-bugs and replacing parts with newer models is good, but not really exiting."
But makes a significant difference. You earlier stated that migrating 68k to PPC means that you have a big testing effort ahead of you and bug extraction ( paraphrased but that was the import. I put it to you that the upgrade caused a similar testing effort and if you were on the A1G3 mailing list you would know yet more.
"The Pegasos_HW in the mATX-version has been working since allmost a year,"
According to Thendic it has been bug ridden and unreliable. In their so called "press releases".
"and had reached final status this summer."
Hmmm so "working" has a low burden of proof when
its the Pegasos? Final status -> removed most of the problems.
" It's the SW (MorphOS/Ambient/BIOS)
that are not 100% consumer-ready."
Oh so MOS have not got a reliable BIOS then? ;-)
One up for Hyperion and the lads behind PPCBoot.
You see none of this helps anyone. Lets stick to the FUDBUSTER as its pretty good.
