Amiga.org Interview : Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco (6/30/03)

[takemehomegrandma]

@ Matt_H

To be honest, I didn't find the interview very informative. I sort of expected more, given Genesi's frequent comments in various community forums.

I kind of agree. I hoped for more info regarding the Pegasos II and MorphOS 1.4, but I guess we will know a lot more shortly. They propably want to make an "event" of it, especially for the Peg2.

But I thought it was an interesting interview anyway! :-)


@ DamienMcKenna

Please check the resellers page on pegasosppc.com as many of them still have boards available!

I know at least one reseller that might update their website in a near future! :-o  :-)

[takemehomegrandma]

OS4... Just because they worked on the original doesn't make everything they touch an Amiga, no more than having Nolan Bushnel there would make it an Atari.

Of course not. Everybody knows that they have all moved on to their own respective projects. But they are great minds and their new projcets is probably great too, and it seems like they are interested in the Pegasos platform for their projects. Thats cool! :-)

[takemehomegrandma]

But to be honest, those who worked on the original Amiga have been involved in several failures since....

Yes, but so has many others too (like Fleecy and McEwan). There is nothing bad or shameful in trying and failing, and there can be thousands of reasons to failures other than personal qualities (like you insinuate). I would NOT call Nolan Bushnell, RJ Mical, Dave Haynie, Carl Sassenrath loosers if I were you (neither is Fleecy & Co after their Amiga DE flop, but while the others have moved on to new endeavours, Fleecy is still trying to answer questions about OS4 week after week which never was their product and was not part of their plan).

[takemehomegrandma]

I am of course paraphrasing, and I desperately want to find the original quote, and I say again, I might be incorrect in what was said, but that's what *I* recall seeing him say.

"The quote is out there ..." ;-)

Anyway, my own recollection goes more towards jahc's version in this case. And I think it was meant something like "if you downclock/degrade different components of the system until it runs *100%* stable while the Northbridge is shoveling huge amounts of unique data criss cross between different PCI/IDE units for a looong period of time, without a single case of data corruption, then the overall system performance of a Pegasos G3 with April2 will outperform the A1 with G4".

But that's just as much speculation as yours, and my interpretation is probably wrong anyway ;-) ...

[takemehomegrandma]

@ mahen

Does it really matter? The A1 owners seem to be happy with their systems (the few who have spoken in public about it), and isn't that the main point (that they feel happy)? Let's move on!