SharkPPC news

[Kronos]

@MarkTime
WarpOS is NOT an option, because the contextswitches would
be far worse than with a CS_PPC !

OS4 is NOT an option since Elbox don't have a licence for it,
and until now failed to deliever a proto to Hyperion.
Also with Hyperion well occupied with the A1 for atleast
another 6 monhts (sorry but lets face reality) there is noone
to port it. Forget the "highly-compatible-BS" as Hyperion have
allready declared that it won't work that way, and that they
would not give out material to a 3rd party for a port.

MorphOS is NOT an option as Elbox doesn't give out any specs
to them.

Linux ? That would mean that Elbox would support an "open"
standard/product and that the low-level specs of their HW would
be publicly available ....

So IF this is real, it seems a extra heat-source is all you
would get for the time being  :-P

[Kronos]

@ikir

Will the Shark be released ? Probraly.
If it is released, will Elbox come to sense and ask for a licence ?
They will try everything to wiggle out of that, but in the end the
will just do what they did with W3D or now Poseidon.

Will Elbox be able to do that within this year like they claim ?

Be ny guest !

[Kronos]

@hnl_dk

How do you come to that conclusion ??

But what I see as really funny:

"Shipping status: Q4 2002"


"Photo not available"

So they say that they gone have a working HW/SW package out in less
than 4 month, but still they don't even have a proto for a promo ?

Also remember that both versions will need special SW to redirect
access back to the Axx00-mobo, and that this SW has to be
tighltly intregrated with ExecSG ....

[Kronos]

@Rob

Do they ?
The only thing I remember is that they had asked for a licence,
but sofar there has be no final agreement announced and looking
at the way AInc would handle that news normally makes it clear
that there is nothing to announce.


@ikir
Sure there is a pic of the "normal" Shark, which may (or may not)
be just a rebadged Mac-accel, but there is no pic for the Shark+
which is also promised for Q4.

[Kronos]

@ikir

What I remmeber is the "licence-exec-up" where McBill wrote that Eyetech
HAD a licence (suprise suprise), that Elbox,Matay,Merlancia "are in talk with us",
and there was "no reply" by bPlan (again suprise suprise).

If Elbox had allready signed such a licence, it would have appear
in the latest exec-up (you can bet my hairy *** on that)  :-D

I think (fear) that Ben may be right, and that they are planning
some sort of WarpOS-clone, which would certainly be buggy and slow,
for everything except maybe PPC-games (which don't do many
context-switches).

[Kronos]

@ikir
April_01

That was loooooooooong before "the licence".
That was loooooooog before Hyperion had any thing to do with OS4 (atleast officially).
That may have been before H&P was involved in OS4.
It could allmost be the time when they were trying to use that other OS as OS4  :-o

Also:
I'm sure that one of the main points of "the licence" is that
Hypeiom gets HW & docs, and you have heard Ben's words on that ?