"Initially, we tried to work with Amiga Inc., "
You know, a certain executive update from... hmmm when was it.. October 21, 2000 comes to mind.
"We are pleased to announce to the community the first in a series of new hardware that has been designed by Amiga and soon manufactured by Amiga OEM partners. The first in our AmigaONE series of products are the AmigaONE PPC 1200, and the AmigaONE PPC 4000 cards from Eyetech. These products will become available to developers in December this year and are designed to meet the specific needs of the Amiga Community. We have also announced another partner, bPlan GmbH, who are creating a new AmigaONE PPC based desktop computer.
More details will emerge shortly about bPlan, Eyetech and the new AmigaONE products, so visit the AmigaONE web site"
and ofcourse signed with..
"Get Boinged!
Bill McEwen and the rest of the Amiga Team"
Well it's strange you can't find this on amiga.com anymore since they have the jun. and nov. executive updates.
The Internet Wayback Machine is a great thing though...
Well more to the point. Perhaps this executive update finally might come true? ;-) That is my hope atleast.
and.... before any clever moderator delete this as flaming or whatever. My intention was to show that when R&B say they approached amiga inc to work together it's often perceived as not true or serious, like they only tried to do this with posting something on public mailinglists etc. This is proof that they actually had "some kind of" serious talks. (-only believe it if you read it here -Bill McEwen said)
And I base this ofcourse on the belief that Bplan and Thendic had a connection at this time already, and if they hadn't it would be even more interesting to know what happened with this deal.
Perhaps question what happened to the licenses that former Phase5 and current DCE had with Amiga Technologies and "Gateway" Amiga Inc. in the past. Who owns thoose now? (the Amiga 5000 and 6000) But that might be another thread unless R&B could mention this briefly. ;-)
Anyway, regardless of what we call them we need thoose peg2 and Amiga Ones now (with usuable and good OS on them) with all the rumors of G5 mac's is flying around!
regards
Dan Andersson
