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Posts: 2720 from 2003/2/24
Quote:Genesi wrote:
How about this instead?
Pegasos III Upgrade Program$799 and your old PegasosPPC based machine gets you a new Dual 970MP Open Server Workstation. There will be 5GHz "under the hood."
We will take those "old" PegasosPPC/ODWs and drop them into the grid we are building at
MyPowerPC. We would let selected resellers participate too, allowing them to build their own cluster.
The pricing would be in the 50% range of the full OSW offer.
(Aha, 4 x 1.25
)
That would indeed be a very generous offer!
The OSW looks very interesting indeed, both as a modern workstation and as a server box.
However, isn't that somewhat of a different architecture? The Efika, HDB and Pegasos in one legue, and this will be in another?
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If we can get MorphOS running on the new machine
Maybe it could be made to run on the machine, but honestly, how *relevant* is a quad-core 64-bit G5 for MorphOS in practice?
I think the Efika is the most interesting product you have up in your sleeve right now, especially since you added the onboard graphics with real, official drivers, and the FPGA (which by itself adds a whole new dimension of possibilities). This has all the opportunity of becoming a real jackpot for you IMHO. It can also become (could have been?) the ground for the first serious MorphOS-based commercial applications. However, the Efika is not exactly a good developer platform.
I think the Pegasos is a quite decent development platform for the 32-bit PPC architecture (*especially* from a MorphOS POV); it's a general purpose desktop machine suitable for developments to more specialized devices like the Efika (and any upcoming spinoff applications), the HDB, etc. A little more CPU power would be great though. And if the current Pegasos design is not too well suited for faster CPU's from a Price/Performance/Heat Point of View, then maybe you could design a *new* 32-bit general purpose motherboard, built around the 7448 from the start?
I have a feeling how you will response - that research and development for this kind of hardware is not really feasable, since it will cost a lot of time and money and it can never compete with other desktop systems anyway (including your own "Pegasos III"). And that may be right; the "Pegasos III" is most certainly *way better* in all aspects, for all OS's that the Pegasos enjoys today.
Except perhaps for MorphOS ...?
MorphOS is Amiga
done right! MorphOS NG will be AROS
done right!
