Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: Articia I, AmigaTwo, 970  (Read 9675 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Kronos

  • Resident blue troll
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2002
  • Posts: 4017
    • Show all replies
    • http://www.SteamDraw.de
Re: Articia I, AmigaTwo, 970
« on: January 03, 2004, 04:06:32 AM »
Quote

iamaboringperson wrote:

At least the AmigaOne costs less than a Terron board bought straight from MAI!


And how much would that be ? And no we ain't talking bout an evaluation-board
with full developer-support......

And even those get an hefty price-drop by just ordering 2-5 boards, and
an unknown price for 6 and more. A number even an smaller Amiga-dealer
could easily handle.

@Argo
Eyetech just resel what MAI has developed, so they are far from being the best
source for info on the upcoming boards.

But lets be realistic (or overly optimistic if we look at the delays round ArticiaS/P).
MAI has just licenced those techs, and it will take atleast a year to get a minimal
working chip. Another 6 months to get a eval-board ready and cure the chips from
it's major flaws (and those will be there as they have have 0 experience in fast busses
and DDR-interfaces). 6 months for developing a retail-ready version of said eval-board
and to get OS4.x working on it.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

Offline Kronos

  • Resident blue troll
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2002
  • Posts: 4017
    • Show all replies
    • http://www.SteamDraw.de
Re: Articia I, AmigaTwo, 970
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2004, 08:54:04 PM »
Hello ? Anybody outthere capable of understanding what the words
"evaluation board" mean ? In contrast to retail that ...

You pay 3500 for the dev-support, and 500 for the HW.
Just look at the price-plunge you'll get from the 3rd board on.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

Offline Kronos

  • Resident blue troll
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2002
  • Posts: 4017
    • Show all replies
    • http://www.SteamDraw.de
Re: Articia I, AmigaTwo, 970
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2004, 11:52:48 PM »
@DrFloppy

Eyetech has zero, nada, 0, niente in engineering resources, and I somehow
doubt that Alan has enough $$$ to change that.

All he can do is buy in what ever gets developed by MAI.

Even Apple with millions of sold unit, and billions in share-value has a rather
hard time just keeping up with what Wintel&AMD develop.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else