Articia I, AmigaTwo, 970

[Seehund]

asian1 wrote:

What is the release schedule for AmigaTwo?

Nah, make that a



Bother. I'll just c&p from ANN:

But there IS a "G5 Amiga" already, since almost half a year. Apple sold 667,000 PowerMacs last year, of which a sizeable chunk are G5 PowerMacs.

Oh... We have to pretend that there still are "Amigas", so someone has to buy a license to sell them under a meaningless "Amiga" trademark, bundled with AmigaOS and a dongle, and then we would only be allowed to buy our hardware from such a dealer? Sorry. How could I ever forget that?!


(clicky for Biggerer & Betterer)

Anyway, good news if anything will ever materialise from this PR. There can never be too many chipsets.

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iamaboringperson wrote:

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

You mean the other way round, surely?

Recently Mai don't seem to want to acknowledge the currently available Terons; you might get the same reply as I did: try asking at eyetech.com (sic!)
Before this turn, they said $500 for an 800MHz G4 Teron PX (i.e. "AmigaOne XE"). That's also the same price as Terrasoft was going to charge before they dropped the Teron idea.

Eyetech's RRP for the boards when sold as "AmigaOnes" seems to be $800, and I see from the current amiga.org ad that Forefront is selling them for "only" $750.

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Rassilon wrote:
Just to clarify things for those not aware, this is the situation between MAI and Eyetech:

MAI design Articia - Eyetech Buys chip - Eyetech contracts out board design  to 3rd party far eastern design house.

Thats the way it has always been, MAI DO NOT design or manufacture Mobo's.

That's incorrect. All Terons so far were designed inhouse by Mai Logic themselves, this hasn't had anything to do with dealers like Eyetech or anybody else outside the Atum group. That goes for all of Mai's other boards as well (Mightron, Micro Server). AFAIK Bill Mueller doesn't live anywhere in the Far East...

What's happening in Taiwan is, of course, manufacturing of the physical boards.

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iamaboringperson wrote:

SamuraiCrow wrote:
@ikir

AmigaTWO will be a dual processor system. (That's what the number in the name stands for.)  If AmigaOS starts to catch on again then we'll see about dual processor support.  8-)

Where do you get that from?

The "AmigaTwo" bit? I think it was originally Fleecy that mentioned something like that, way back during (or even before?) the "AmigaOne 1200/4000" days. I don't think it's all that relevant today. It's just a label waiting for a product.

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Rassilon wrote:
As far as I am aware MAI contracted out the design of the reference motherboard. According to Alan Redhouse MAI have no board deisgn skills. they just design Chips. I believe that Eyetech use the same board designer for the modified Teron's (Seehund: Hope that makes you feel happyi.e.) Known as A1's.

I hope Redhouse didn't say that. It would be untrue, and coming from a party with no motherboard design skills of its own it would IMO be even more insulting to Mai than that infamous "there's no Mai without April" pun.

Mai themselves (Bill Mueller and another Mai employee unknown to me) have done all of Mai's PCB designs. The Terons sold by one distributor do not differ from those sold by another, there are no Teron modifications designed for exclusive implementation by any one particular vendor. Regardless of whether the boards are eventually sold to end users as "AmigaOnes", "Dragon Servers", "Phoenixes", "Boxers" or whatever else they are/have been/will be marketed as, they're all the exact same hardware.