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Offline IonDeluxe

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Re: Urgent: Pegasos II needs Open Firmware update!
« on: December 30, 2003, 05:01:26 PM »
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Genesi has served the computer hobbyist since the first Beta release of the Pegasos in 2002. Trialed and tested by over 1000 users in 34 countries, enthusiasts have configured the Pegasos in variety of fashions with over a dozen different operating systems. The Pegasos was awarded the Amiga Award 2002 by Falke Media Verlag and recently, the Pegasos was acclaimed as the future home of the Linux desktop by German Linux site PPCNUX.


Over 1000 beta testers that have "trialled and tested" the board and they still cannot catch such a major flaw in the firmware before it goes out the door?
Either that statement is not worth the electrons showing it or they have some very shoddy testing and trialling criteria in my opinion.

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Re: Urgent: Pegasos II needs Open Firmware update!
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2004, 02:36:36 PM »
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You doubt you know anything about what you'r talking about so i wouldnt create such strong bold sentences. Arnt you seeing a paterns here, all software and hardware have bugs. This industry is relativly new, we're still learning how to perfect our processors of design and testing.


I dont doubt what I am talking about at all or I would not say it.

Nevertheless, a bios flaw like this is similar to a bridge being built without a carriagway, or a car being built without wheels or spark plugs.The car example is more applicable to your example as it uses about the same timeframe.

The only person making bold statements here is BBRV for expounding the virtues of the testing of pegasos boards yet a bug of this magnitude gets through.

Someone mad mention that this relates only to pegasos II boards. Well thats fine, but it changes nothing as BBRV did not specify or make destintions between the the two boards making his statements even more ludicrous.This of course brings me back to this:
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Either that statement is not worth the electrons showing it or they have some very shoddy testing and trialling criteria in my opinion.

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I\\\'d post something satirical, but I\\\'m afraid it might get used as genuine evidence in the Thendic Amiga trial!