HyperionMP wrote:
I should also add that we NEVER received an offer from Genesi to obtain the full documentation of the Pegasos hardware including chipsets and firmware documentation.
Idiotic offers to come and pick up the hardware in Paris aside, this is exactly what is needed to even contemplate a port of OS 4 to the Pegasos I.
I don't think the offer of come to paris to pick up the hardware is idiotic. This is part of business.
Why do you want to assume this to be idiotic?
No hardware modifications are required incidentally, just access to the firmware.
Having said that, given the fact that there are at best only 600 Pegasos I machines out there and far fewer actually sold, it's hardly worth the effort.
The Pegasos I is a discontinued product which has no future and a permanently fixed userbase.
The majority of the first run Pegasos boards out there are in the hands of
developers & power users. These are the people preparing the way for the second generation or second run pegasos, which looks to be produced in a much larger volume.
Can you say that there are 600+ AmigaOnes running OS4 in the hands of developers? Probably not... but if there was then the OS4 would be a much stronger platform to develop for, right?
As it is, I don't see how selling 600 AmigaOne's running Linux to end users would be of benefit to Hyperion or the users themselves.
By the time OS4 ships, the AmigaOne's will drop in price to 200Euros or less, right? :-D
