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MorphOS official release!
« on: January 31, 2003, 09:15:26 AM »
Hi there!

Just a quick note (we can answer more thoroughly this weekend if needed -- we are just really busy today).

Pegasos info from December was accurate then.  ;-)  We made more boards after Aachen and then again in January, but these were in small quantities and went to Developers and a few "important" customers.  We will be making some more boards next week -- still in tens, not hundreds.  We won't produce any more large quantities until we receive the next shipment of Articias.

Concerning MorphOS...the OS comes with the Pegasos.  This will be shipped as a bootable CD along with our DebianPPC distro and Mac-on-Linux.  Today, we provide FTP access to all Pegasos owners for the latest updates.  We did release a new ISO image just before CES.  

All this is INCLUDED in the Pegasos purchase.  In the future, we will sell MorphOS alone, but this will be a strategy primarily directed at Apple computer owners and be "hidden" under an application (probably a game), running from a CD (or a plug and play device) and NOT the host hard drive (no partitioning required).  We will work something out for other PPC based platforms too.  As mentioned here and on ANN we already had MorphOS running on the basic version of the A1.

Sincerely,

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Re: MorphOS official release!
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2003, 05:00:51 PM »
Hi!

We will post some ideas along these lines (Mr_Capehill) and answer some of the questions here (the whole thread) this weekend.

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MorphOS and the future...
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2003, 05:54:28 AM »
Good job Nicholas!

Here is something to think about this weekend concerning Morph-on-Mac...  We have two strains of thought and we are discussing the virtues of each approach.

1. Target pre-nvidia PPC Macs

2. Target the newest sytems

Bring life back to "old" systems or stay with the market...

What do you think?

Thanks for the feedback.

Sincerely,

R&B :-)

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Re: MorphOS and the future...
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2003, 11:36:47 AM »
We just posted this on another thread, but it seems relevant here too.

...we are thinking that the whole "value" proposition is changing. With the emphasis on the speed of the CPU and the size of the memory, the computer became an end in itself and not a means to an end. While being a “fashion statement” could also be enviable (we actually saw a 50+ year old wearing a mobile in a designer case on a colorful cord around her neck recently), to the market we are targeting this is not yet our ambition. G3 or G4? Who cares! What can you do is the issue (G-Force does not sound too bad though). How about a “G”bit Ethernet channel (or three in the northbridge)?

Seriously, the domination of Windows and the “personal computer” itself have pushed the average user away from understanding what is really “under the hood.” Most computer users have a superficial knowledge of what makes what they do work and the relationship between “man and machine” ends at the GUI. OK, someday we need to deliver exactly that “simplicity” to the market, but today, we have to focus on niches. For example, there will not be memory protection in MorphOS for some time, but we are not targeting MorphOS at either the server or the desktop for the mass-market, so while this will come in the QBox, it is not a feature and consequently they are not markets we are focused on (for MorphOS). On the other hand, Debian and Gentoo users like the Pegasos very much and have different aspirations for the platform. We are hoping that the OpenBSD port attracts plenty of interest too. Our first strike in the market is toward “techies” and “geeks,” who know what they are getting into and want something different NOW. They are the artist/creator/engineer types that can write their own programs and still know how to make a computer, a television or a stereo do what they want it to do (at home with a soldiering iron if necessary!). Ultimately, it will be those people that help us carry the message to the masses, because they will have helped us create it.


And, one more thing about MorphOS...until we feel MorphOS has all the features in needs to be sold, it will not be.  Anyone who buys a Pegasos will get it along free upgrades until then.  When we feel it is ready, we will release it to a broader market.  Will we do our best to provide "retro-support" too, but we cannot do everything at once and we are focused on the Pegasos for the moment.  ;-)

Best regards,
Raquel and Bill  :-)

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Re: MorphOS is the future!
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2003, 12:48:18 PM »
Thanks ksk!

:-D

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Re: MorphOS official release?
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2003, 02:16:41 PM »

There is?!

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Re: MorphOS official release?
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2003, 11:06:55 PM »

That is right zacman!  No problem bring!

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