Retarded_Fury wrote:
ET: And that if you want AmigaOS, "you're not allowed to buy it. You have to buy a new Teron board."
Bill McEwen: That's untrue.
This isnt how I understand it....I thought it was posted that the only way to get a copy of OS4 is to purchase it with a PPC MoBo..."There will be NO shrink wrapped versions of OS4.0"
Yes. This has been "clarified" so many times by himself, fleecy, Gary Peake, Alan Redhouse and Ben Hermans. I hope that's not a word-for-word quote of McEwen, as what he says is simply "untrue." *)
And what's with this nonsense:
Bill McEwen: EyeTech is one of the larger computer resellers in England, and they licensed the right to take the project over. The Amiga One is our spec, our design, but they built it.
Again, I hope he's been misquoted. Otherwise he's spitting right in the face of Bill Mueller and the other Mai Logic engineers. "No, you didn't design your board, it's our spec, our design."
Things like this...
Bill McEwen: OS4 is the next version of the Amiga OS, it's a total rewrite of the operating system. It's brand new from the ground up, rewritten for the PPC hardware. And it's bloody fast. It's currently in beta testing at 20 external sites, and it's just about ready to go .. in three more weeks. The components are ready, we just have to plug them together and go.
ET: Did you just throw everything out and start over?
Bill McEwen: Well, major portions of the code are still being used. We took those pieces that were hard wired to the custom chipsets, and worked through those issues to make sure we could take advantage of the special capabilities of the Power PC chip. [my emphasis]
...also suggest that he really should abstain from commenting on technical aspects of AmigaOS, and concentrate on trademark licensing.
The rest was the same old, same old. I.e. more marketese.
*) Edit: It could of course be that he was thinking of a special OS version meant for old PPC kludges on Amigas, but forgot to elaborate on that fact. Either way, Amigas with Cyberstorm cards are not very relevant to Extremetech readers, so, AmigaOS will still not be available for sale separately as far as they or anyone else interested in reasonably modern hardware is concerned.
