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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12058 from 2003/5/22
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    > Early on they thought of a potential two-chip solution (or even three-chip) based
    > on the 5200B.

    Yes, besides the obvious one-chip solution (MPC5200B), which made it as the only one, it were a two-chip solution (MPC5200B + FPGA) and a three-chip solution (MPC5200B + FPGA + Volari GPU) they thought of.

    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6305&forum=11&post_id=63099#63099

    > the result became known as "LimePC", a cooperation which crashed
    > and burned later on.

    It seems the LimePC survived this crash and burn:

    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6726&forum=11&post_id=77244#77244

    > Pegatron [...] (Asus development company).

    Not any more. It was spun off in June.

    >> http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/10/wanting-what-you-have.html

    > Which is the 5121e

    Yes, obviously. But still the first samples of that chip were 8 months away back then.

    > I never claimed that MorphOS was realized for LimePC

    And I never claimed you did. I just wanted to outline that BBRV and Neko contradicted each other regarding the role of MorphOS in LimePC.

    > this was [...] possibly also a reason (aside from a porting fee) to why RS agreed

    Maybe, or maybe not.

    > the MorphOS team releasing it for the *efika* two years after the agreement was done

    More like 1.5 years.

    > Go back in the thread and read the posts talking about
    > business, volume, revenue, payment from Genesi, etc.

    I did and I still can't find any posting saying something to the effect of "that *revenue* is their biggest motivation for MorphOS development". Firstly there's a difference between "biggest motivation" and just "motivation", and secondly there's probably a difference in intrinsic motivation between porting MorphOS to a desktop-worthy and mass-produced hardware like PPC Macs and porting it to something like the 128 MiB RAM Efika 5200B or the 2000+ EUR X1000, where some kind of additional motivation (read: payment) may be needed to start the porting.

    > you will see that there isn't really a business going here

    Yes, and even without you telling me. It's you who claims that others in this thread would see a business going here.

    > Had *business* been the biggest motivator for MorphOS development

    Again: Nobody said that. It's a straw man argument.

    > then the OS would have been ported to a different architecture a long time ago

    A backwards compatible MorphOS on PPC may still have a better chance to be used by anyone than a non-backwards compatible MorphOS on another architecture.

    > and/or niched differently than a general desktop OS.

    You mean embedded? That's even harder to gain a foothold.
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