Eyetech speaks out on Terrasoft and Deliveries

[tonyw]

Alan Redhouse has posted this link on the YahooGroups AmigaOne list.

[Paul_Gadd]

It is all well Alan saying that but why not update your website and let future customers know what is going on or at least put something on the news page to  point potential customers to the relevant information (forums).

Lack of communication is bad.

[Billsey]

To Alan Redhouse:

I want to thank you for once again explaining as calmly and clearly as possible what has been explained repeatedly before; and for not popping a vessel in the process, as tempting as it must be to do so. Please be assured that there are still people out here waiting patiently for a good quality product which, compared to what we now have, may actually be a stellar achievement. Though I have not (yet) ordered a board, be assured that this is due to a year (and now more) that has been very difficult for all concerned. Thank you very much for your efforts. They are greatly appreciated.

[Argo]

Ooo, a 1.3GHz 7445 Hight End module. Once these boards start shipping quantity, maybe OS 4.0 will be out.

[strobe]

Argo, careful...what you say could be true (for better or worse)

[Billsey]

Remember that dual CPU board that has been seen in connection with A1? That was 7451 wasn't it?

[MarkTime]

Well, I must say I agree with the assessment about Terrasoft....yep, they aren't that big...but they are good Joe's with a good reputation for basically doing what they say.

If they can't sell the G4 board for 500 dollars then they can't sell the board at all.  Linux people aren't going to sit around being gouged, after all, they have options!

Whatever they decide, I wish them well, I hope to hear that they will release a Teron board, for about 500 dollars with G4 module, and prove Alan wrong.

Time will tell.

The fact that Alan said last month, end of February *IF* everything goes right...means NOT END OF FEBRUARY, *UNLESS*.....

same thing?  well no, its not....there will be no high end card *UNLESS*, it still won't be delivered in March *UNLESS*.....unless everything falls into place.

I have taken this approach for a very long time, and I just haven't been wrong yet. :-)

Its good to be on a board where bad news is bad news...its not that I want bad news, but at least we aren't so desparate for good news, that we turn the world upside down.

[Argo]

I'm hope it's soon, like in a couple of months. Okay, 3 or 4 months.

[Lo]

Bleeaah...SOS...

[Argo]

What's that suppost to mean? Gee, Cryptic.

[redfox]

Good to hear that the AmigaOne boards will be coming soon ........

[Darth_X]

@redfox

Great to see more Canadians here

[Darth_X]

"MAI - as has been said many times - are a fabless chip manufacturer who also
own the Teron design. They do not make boards. In the past MAI have
commissioned the building of boards in sample quantity boards from a third
party prototyping company (a sort of far eastern DCE on their good days) and
we have bought some of these boards from MAI to ship to developers. But for
any sort of producton volumes we have to contract directly with an
independant board manufacturer and clearly this involves a significant
volume and therefore upfront financial commitment."

What fab is responsible for the MAI chipset? Who is the FAR EAST manufacturer of the Teron motherboards?


"Contrary to what has also been speculated, there is certainly no requirement
for us or end users to pay a licence fee to Terrasoft for any AmigaOne board
whether used for running OS4 or Linux."

Who actually started this?

"I'm sure the ann orcs will try to make something sinister of all this, but
we, and Hyperion, really are doing our best under very difficult
circumstances to deliver the best, most cost effective, genuine, Amiga to
date."

Yes, orcs on ANN. So is that really Fleecy Moss, or an Orc *pretending* to be him?


In a rare move.. Darth_x breaks out into a song sounding like Dr Evil...

what if Fleecy Moss was one of us....

blah... blah blah.. blah blah blah blah...  

[SlimJim]

> Yes, orcs on ANN. So is that really Fleecy Moss, or an Orc
> *pretending* to be him?
 
Are you being serious, or just trying to be funny? You
cannot seriously mean you don't understand why
someone - anyone actually - might refer to some of the
posters on ANN as "orcs", do you? I'm sure you don't
need to feel offended, if that was indeed what you were.
 
And why do you use bold letters all the time, if I may
ask? It feels very similar to SHOUTING with capitals, to
me anyway ...
.
SlimJim

[Hondo]

Uhh......well.....while we're waiting, it could be nice to see a new feature list. After all...it's been 2 months since the first one.

Or maybe just reveal the secrets of club amiga magazine to the rest of us.....HELLO......WE'RE STARVING HERE!!!  :-?  ;-)