• Jim
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    Jim
    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
    From: Delaware, USA
    Andreas has a very good point here. Even before A-eon's announcement about their relationship with Varisys, if you'd given me the task of finding a company to design a MorphOS motherboard Varisys would have been one of the first companies that would have come to mind.
    Their website mentions custom designs available and in addition to the PA6T the MPC86XX is mentioned.
    It wasn't posted here, but a long time ago I'd been discussing with Andreas the potential of a 8640/8641 based motherboard using an AMD SB600 Southbridge (the Southbridge that is on the X1000 MB).
    The problem is we're talking about a LOT of money (needed to finance such an undertaking).
    Bplan and Varisys won't do this kind of thing out of the goodness of their heart.
    And I'm confused as to everyone continues to focus on Bplan (perhaps their past connection with our market) when there plenty of talented alternatives that could build a new PPC board for our market.
    "Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
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