Some info on the Mai/A1 boards

[Acill]

I just thought this would interest a lot of you.


Mai will be selling their Teron CX boards in a "consumer version" (as opposed to the "evaluation version" sold until now, distributed as "developer boards" by Eyetech). The initial target price will be about USD 500.

Since the public press release is out by now I guess I'm free to say that Bill Mueller, the Mai engineer who designed the Teron CX / "AmigaOne", has told me that this "consumer board" will be equipped with the newer VIA 686B southbridge (ATA100 interface et c.) and that the shared AGP/PCI slots on PCI bus 1 will be simultaneously usable. This is the same board Eyetech will be redistributing under the "AmigaOne" trademark, apart from that Eyetech's boards will ship with a modified firmware. The Teron CX will be on sale in "a couple of months", and Mueller did not yet know what firmware their boards will be shipped with.


And here is the press release from Mai Logic:

http://www.mai.com/news&events/PressRelease090302.html

[strobe]

FYI This is the soldered-on G3 version of the Teron board.

[Seehund]

Yeah, that's an old news submission of mine. And, as expected, Terra Soft is now also yet another distributor of these boards. Things are shaping up nicely, but it's no good for AmigaOS users, as we're considered too stupid to choose hardware vendors on our own and need to be "protected" and only buy Terons via Eyetech.

A quick update.

haha...

No it goes something like this.

Sell a product and actually get paid for it.

Say no to the low down pirates who do nothing but steal!

Hurts don't it?

Way to Go Amiga Inc.

[Seehund]

I have never really been able to make any sense out of your posts, mounatinmyst, and this is no exception.

Pirates? Selling products? Stealing? Hurting? Way to go Amiga Inc?

Is this supposed to be some kind of well-hidden sarcasm about Amiga Inc not actually selling "their" product, AmigaOS, but to instead be dependent on simultaneous sales of "licensed" hardware, and the only ones getting a choice about hardware and hardware vendors are pirates instead of the customers, who have no option but to buy bundled/dongled stuff from a particular distributor?

I thought you were automatically opposed to anyone and anything that disagrees with whatever the AInc view on things might be. This is confusing.

[Damion]

How are they saying 'no' to the pirates? The
'pirates' will just fix it to run on their own
hardware, so A-Inc looses by not selling as
many copies of OS4. Many people would buy the
A1 anyway, so what's the point? Why not allow
some of us to choose our own hardware? And how
is that pirating again?

Ok, Mountainmyst,maybe you can answer this one
question for
me: Since the 'pirates' will fix the OS to run
on X-hardware anyway, how is this donglized board
restricting the pirates and not the customers?

[strobe]

Let me explain mounatinmyst's position.

Amiga Inc. is only capable of good. Therefore, way to go Amiga Inc.

Amiga Inc. and Hyperion said the hardware dongle is to protect against piracy, it must be true! Don't waste time using logic to prove otherwise, the gods themselves are only capable of telling the truth!

Of course suggesting the license is really a way to control the hardware distributors is considered blasphemy...