Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2720 from 2003/2/24
Quote:> I've met Ali Dixon from XMOS too - he was happy to refer to the X1000 as "vapourware". :)
I remember you've told about that incident already elsewhere in December 2011
And as events have turned out some weeks later, he was wrong.
At $3000+, nobody (other than a few... ehrm, "brave" ones) would ever buy something like it today, even if they could. Which they can't, since it's not up for sale. There has been 2 (or three?) small batches produced, on a pre-order scheme (and probably pre-payment as well), with sporadic deliveries many months later. There is very poor SW support for it, especially in OS4 which is the whole point of the HW. It relies entirely on a CPU that never reached a commercial phase, samples are limited (and the company behind it doesn't exist anymore, the design is as dead as it can be), and so is the potential production volumes of the motherboard in question, even if it would have customers, which it hasn't, since it's not out for sale, and wouldn't have had even if it were, since they are asking more than $3,000 for this piece of 2005 specced HW. So for anyone developing real products, for real markets (like XMOS does), this is just as much a *none-product* as vapor is, and this won't change!
[ Edited by takemehomegrandma 04.06.2012 - 10:49 ]MorphOS is Amiga
done right! MorphOS NG will be AROS
done right!
