News from Hyperion

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Glad to hear from Hyperion, still, no new hardware save the MiniMig has me concerned.

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@a1260

If Hyperion is unwilling to have their OS on hardware other than their limited subset, then they are being foolish and stubborn.  It is time to move past such petty concepts as blue/red trolls and instead deliver the best option for the marketplace, period.

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@damocles

Again, my statement above, if they are unwilling to accept the reality of the market, that is that Genesi has delivered one of the few viable platforms for said system, then they will die.  It is time to put aside egos here.

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@A1260

Um, dude, you shot yourself in the foot with that arguement.  

"eifka is new but crippled industry hw"

(I assume you mean the Efika) then a few lines lower:

"releasing os4.0 on sam is a start in the rigth direction."

The Efika uses the MPC5200, SAM using the AMCC 440EP.  The 5200 runs at 400Mhz, 603e based core, getting 833DMIPS.  The 440EP by comparison run at 333Mhz-533Mhz, depending on model, and has a PowerPC 440 core, getting 1066MIPS @533Mhz.

The two machines are running very similar CPU's designed for very similar markets.  To proclaim one being crippled and the other an ideal target is an insult to the good engineers of both platforms.

I based my critique based on the realities of todays market, that the community needs a unifying force, not further divides.  Truth be, OS4 needs the Efika more than the Efika needs OS4, simply for the symbol of reaching across the isle, to embrace your fellow Amigan, to let by gones be by gones, and to unify to focus on growing our market.

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@A1260

I look at them and the differences I see lie in the Efika's favor, save the FPGA (which is probably the only reason I'd buy a SAM over the Efika).  I'm very looking forward to the PVR based graphics, as i've been a big fan of PVR technology ever since the Dreamcast.

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@reflect

You know, I did not see Piru as putting down this effort, only offering his viewpoint.

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@Bhoggett

Thank you!  Been saying that for months.  By the same token, x86 is just a gilded cage.  I say, take control of the platform, if you can't own the parts in it, I want none of it.  License ARM, SPARC, MIPS, SuperH, SOMEONE that you can, should your vendor flake out on you, you can go to someone else with!