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Re: I don't get it.
« Reply #14 from previous page: June 22, 2010, 05:16:04 PM »
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IIRC, from the paperwork filed during the law suit with AI, didn't Hyperion say they didn't use it (68K machine code)?
Amiga Inc, threatened them to use their OS3 property, in the end they settled by giving Hyperion exclusive rights to it. One of their represetatives when asked the question after the settlement responded that yes, AOS4 was built from OS3.1 source code (they have rights now, and can speak freely).
 

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Re: I don't get it.
« Reply #15 on: June 22, 2010, 05:57:16 PM »
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You may want to sit and think about this: They state in a court of law, under oath that OS4 is a clean re-write, that it contains no OS3.1 code whatsoever. Then the moment they "win", state publicly that in fact it does contain the code they previously denied.

You do understand that that is perjury, right?

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Oh wait, this was DAX saying this. Nevermind.
the first part was just my hypothesis on what might have happened based on  dammy statement.
However since you seem so adamant, you should point me out the exact document where they stated under oath about 3.1 not being used. (i'll be waiting for this).
As for the second part they confirmed something along those lines at last year Amiwest after a direct question.
 

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Re: I don't get it.
« Reply #16 on: June 22, 2010, 09:58:58 PM »
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New PegasosII/G3 boards costed 299Euros in 2003 (around 320 dollars with old exchange rate) and G4 model costed 499Euros (around 540 dollars with old exchange rate). That was 7 years ago, when euro-dollar change was good for USA people but what I mean is that in 2003 a PegasosII-G4/1Ghz costed new 540$. That was *seven* years ago, that's why Sam440 looks expensive to some of us.
Certainly italy is the worst place on earth to produce anything, production costs are outrageous.
Taxes here are out of control specially when importing parts, we have 20% vat on anything.
Your concerns are understandable, but I assure you, the Acube guys are not making crazy profits, the above description and some failing loop hole must be generating those high production costs.

By the way, how many PegII boards were produced? And were they made here in europe or out sourced in Asia? (manufacturing I mean).
 

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Re: I don't get it.
« Reply #17 on: June 22, 2010, 10:15:44 PM »
@Kolla
Thanks, people doing this :bitch: need some fresh air every once in a while.

Anyway read my post here #64 (like the C= could it be a sign?:lol:) and you will see I'm not such a bad guy ;)
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Re: I don't get it.
« Reply #18 on: June 22, 2010, 10:53:36 PM »
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I think all batches were produced at DCE factory in Germany. There was a video that showed how the boards were built. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P-ZT06NehI

According to old news 400 April2 Peg1 were produced and pre-april and april1 may have been updated. In any case I don't expect more than 500 Peg1 machines. Peg2 was produced in higher numbers, in addition to normal sales Freescale was interested in having them available as developer system and bought some hundreds for developers.

Interesting. Certainly Germany is a better place to produce, my guess is that the G4 was also a powerful but not to expensive component as it was mass produced for Apple and other vendors.
One problem I see with current CPUs (regardless of power) is that they are made for smaller markets and produced in smaller quantities.
 

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Re: I don't get it.
« Reply #19 on: June 22, 2010, 11:04:33 PM »
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You're not invisible on amigaworld.net, you know - once I saw you post here on amiga.org I literally slapped my forhead and cursed, knowing perfectly well what was in for us.
:lol:
 

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Re: I don't get it.
« Reply #20 on: June 23, 2010, 09:42:13 AM »
@The_Leander
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I made no such claims. My response was based purely upon what you wrote in response to Dammy. Any statement sent to a court has a header on the top of it which reads:
so you intervened (with no proof whatsoever) just for the pleasure of argumenting with me? I'm honored! :)


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So, if your hypothesis is in fact an accurate portrayal of events... Whoops.

Then again.. This is Ben Hermans and Bill McEwen we're talking about here and they're not exactly known for their honesty, so who knows.
No, my hypothesis is just an hypothesis (forum chit chat if you wish), but I heard several times (made an example) that OS3 "C" parts are used in OS4.
 

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Re: I don't get it.
« Reply #21 on: June 23, 2010, 10:09:08 AM »
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Any OS3.x C code from what I've read would almost certainly have been post Olaf Barfals cleanup for 3.5/9. As from what I've read the original source for 3.1 was an unholy mess of 68k Assembler, BCPL and C written for a mix of obscure (And probably now discontinued) compilers. The removal of most of the Assembler and BCPL for 3.5/9 was likely one of the main reasons for the apparent "sluggishness" of those releases compared to 3.1 with all the bells and whistles installed - the newer releases were far more loosely tied to the hardware.

I doubt original much if any, unaltered C= era C source code ever passed by Hyperions desk, and even if it did I can't see much of it having remained once they'd re-jigged the OS for hardware other than the original.
Yeah sure, but unless you can check out the source code this is just another hypothesis, with the difference they can look at the source (both new and old) while you don't.
For the moment I'll take their word...
 

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Re: I don't get it.
« Reply #22 on: June 24, 2010, 10:42:25 AM »
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Well that "hypothesis" is based on their own words, what they stated in the court docs (yes, I did read them, all of them, have you?) As well as comments of other developers who have seen and commented publicly about the state of the original C= code.

Indeed to cover your implication of my lying about having ever visited AW.net there is a post there by Ben Hermans bigging up Olaf for all his hard work in unstuffing the 3.1 code. It is very similar to what was stated in the court case btw.
Well I could tell you many things, but I would then need to post links to the parts where what I say is corroborated ;)

You should understand that when you have people with access to the sources telling a story, no matter how we argue, unless we take a look at sources directly and compare, we are just speculating.

You know what their current stance is, and you cannot prove them wrong (even if you could provide links for the court statements which seems you cannot, it still proves nothing practically speaking. what if they used it anyway? unless you check with your own eyes it's all speculation, mine and yours).
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Re: I don't get it.
« Reply #23 on: June 25, 2010, 12:27:32 AM »
It's not I want to dismiss but until I see proof I don't believe what people tells me.

We discussed two things, 1)The X1000 similarity to the Devcon93 papers, and the 3.x Sourcecode actually used in OS4.

1) I told that the X1000 is very similar to what was described at devcon93 (generic mobo with modular components) and I explained to you why I reached that conlcusion: the last amiga they talked about (hombre was no Amiga) at 1993 devcon was to have the AAA chip-set as a  modular interchangeable board, the whole project was ditched, we know  that, but if for a moment we want to forecast what would have  happened in case they made it, we can clearly see that by 1996/97 off  the shelf GPUs, which were advancing at the pace of a new chip every 3  months at the time (from 10 different companies) would have replaced any  chip-set C= had in mind (with the difference that in the A4000 adding  an RTG card still leaves the old chipset there, with that new Amiga,  after taking AAA away, there would be no GFX chipset left inside the  machine) and by today any Amiga would use Ati or Nvidia GPUs (there was  no competing with that evolution speed, too fast).

You told me that, "that could be said of any modern PC" but it would seem that you fail to realize that that's how the world went.
GFX chipsets in this survival of the fittest rolling ball we live in, lost their battle and went extinct regardless of Amiga, so saying the X1000 is no Amiga because of lack of fabled chip sets is absurd.

2) source code: I only see talks about the NG exec there ( and warp3D and elf), the C parts I talked about were in Intuition, and other components, they commented on several occasions the C part is used at least as a base for many things (now OS4.1Up2 has a lot of updated components so who knows).

I believe them and don't see any evidence in the documents you posted, moreover if we don't check the actual sources, we'll never know for sure (is their words against yours).

Notice that it is you who is trying to be authoritative, I only post my impressions and explain "why" I have them.
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Re: I don't get it.
« Reply #24 on: June 25, 2010, 10:09:46 AM »
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Ben Hermans interview on AmigaNews.de, where he explains Olaf Barthals role in it all and of course, the court docs I linked (link 3) to previously.
The links you posted proves nothing I'm afraid. Some C parts with comments that date back to Dave Haynie days are still there, the assembly was converted to C by Bartel (aside from the clean ups). The bottom line is that no matter who cleaned up 3.x, the point is that it is in use inside OS4., that's all i said and you wanted to prove otherwise which you didn't (you also have a PM on this subject).


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Hombre was AAA's final port of call. It's also questionable whether AOS would have been on a Nyx derived system since Dave himself has stated several times over the years that it was EOL even before C= collapsed.
AAA was compatible with OCS/AGA, Hombre was not. Dave said it used some amiga ideas but that a VGA chip was more compatible to OCS/AGA than Hombre go figure.
And here is the sticking point: you should understand that Chipsets != Amiga
The last Amiga C= as ever talked about was the modular mobo + AmigaOS, AAA was only an add in card that would have been scrapped either eventually, or from the get go (in the end they scrapped the whole thing).

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And here is where the sticking point is. AAA was dead, it was never going to be completed and Hombre was a last ditch effort to try to salvage some value out of the chipset. More on this below.
Again, chipsets != Amiga. The fact remain that the modular concept (that in any case would have never "hosted" any GFX chipset as they were too late with dev) was the last "Amiga" they talked about. The Mobo was the Amiga not AAA.
Hombre used some ideas from the old Amiga chipsets, but was no Amiga (chipsets != Amiga).

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LOLWUT? I stated that in no uncertain terms that is precisely how the world went and how the PC was from the beginning. Do you even bother to read what you're writing?
So we agree, good.



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I stated that 1, that the X1k is no more an amiga than any modern PC.
I said that the X1000 it as good as it gets for today's standard NOT TO YOU, but to another guy who was claiming this was no amiga due to the lack of Amiga chipset . I said that the X1000 is more similar to what they talked at devcon93 than anything we will ever get, I meant that the Devcon Amiga was the Mobo+AmigaOS,  not AAA (an obsolete concept that was going the way of the dodo in ANY possible case) chipsets != Amiga.

Moreover it is incorrect to state that the X1000 is like any PC of today, whether you like it or not today fully boxed personal computers don't come with AmigaOS, and as Pyromania ended up evidencing in the previous post they don't come with transputer like tech built in. Don't comment about how useful or useless it might be, the point is, the X1000 it's no PC.

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2 that AAA was an architectural dead end which lead to hombre, which was C='s last project. (which you disputed)
oh no, I disputed it was their last "AMIGA" project. Hombre was no Amiga, their last Amiga project was the mobo described at Devcon93 and form the way they speak there, is pretty clear they were going the way everybody else was :

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The AAA chips obviously function as just part of a whole Amiga system. It's certainly possible to build a machine, like the Amiga 500, where the Amiga chips essentially are the whole system. Such a system would be composed of the AAA chips, a microprocessor, memory, some CIAs, analog stuff for audio, and one gate array for “glue”. Of course, such a system is rather boring to talk about,
 there's considerably more to an Amiga system than the custom chips.
The only thing that would have survived in case they did it would have been the modular mobo, all the rest was scrap.
 
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3, that the X1k bears no resemblance to AAA on any but the most broad concept (IE modularity, beyond that sweet FA).
This is where you make the usual mistake all the time, AAA was not "amiga", but a chipset on a modular board connected to the main MOBO (the latter as a new modular entity running AmigaOS was the next Amiga they had in mind), which could be changed with any off the shelf part, thus leaving an Amiga with no AAA at all. And it is 100% sure that off the shelf part would have taken its place in case they went ahead with the project.

On your "authoritative ways: you talk about AAA as if it = "Amiga" and link documents that do not prove much, so much so for authority. I said they commented "OS3 was used for OS4" recently, not years ago, and what you posted proves nothing on so many levels it boggles the mind (even Olaf code is valid OS3 source used in OS4 in any case, and the new exec was never in question) but there is more of course, you have a PM on this one.
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