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Re: Official email info about sharkppc from elbox
« on: November 21, 2003, 11:57:51 AM »
Ok guys, time to tune into Sanity FM.

The Shark is VAPOR. It can't work in an Amiga PCI board, it doesn't work in an Amiga PCI board. It won't run OS4, it can't run OS4, Elbox have no intention of licencing OS4. It's just a Mac CPU board and there is absolutely no software, not even the lowlevel drivers, available for it. Not even Linux will run on it. You really must get over this.

Even if by some sweet miracle it wasn't vapor, what do you really gain? An old machine with a fast CPU dragged down by all the old Amiga bottlenecks and legacy. A G3 or G4 simply cannot perform to its abilities in this environment. What you'd get is the equivalent of a CPPC with no support. It's pointless.

If you call common sense anti-Amiga (@ ikir in particular), then your Amiga is not my Amiga. My Amiga is progressive. Yours is just pipe dreams and fluff and useless petitions.
 

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Re: Official email info about sharkppc from elbox
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2003, 02:05:12 PM »
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Herewegoagain wrote:
How do you figure it's a Mac CPU card? Mac's have thier own CPU slot, and do not use a PCI slot for CPU upgrades.


Older Macs also used a PCI upgrade card, AFAIR.

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As for the rest of the things you state as fact.... well, that is your opinion. I mean, I could shout those exact things about the PegII, but that doesn't mean that some company will not strike a deal for an OS4 license on that hardware.


Opinion, yes, but one tempered by bitter experience of the Amiga market. In general, where something promises too much and has too little evidence to show, it's vapor. Look at the BoXer, the Walker, the Brainstormer G3, the original Escena A1... all had the same problem. Lots of promises without any explanation of how the practical side might work.

Something smells distinctly rotten about Elbox's explanation that "we'll release the shark when OS4 is ready". It sounds like Amiga Inc.s "we'll send your vouchers when OS4 is ready" when they are 2 million in debt. Either prospect really happening is remote.

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Although, I have my doubts about how Elbox are going to accomplish this, they do seem determined that they will get an OS4 license, which is more than we've heard from another certain company.


Elbox and licences don't mix. Where are their own RTG software and USB stacks, after they refused to licence CyberGraphX or Poseideon?

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There's no way a mediator + shark + amiga will ever be nearly as powerful as an AmigaONE.