-- Stupidity in management is the norm. Truly Intelligent management is a rarity. Sadly enough, the comic strip Dilbert is more truth than fiction.
Case in point: The USPS has spent billions on Automated Document and package, bar coding and sorting equipment. A letter that took 3 days in 1951 (by railroad) now take 7 to 9 days by airplane. Packages mailed from Canada, three weeks before Christmas ... have yet to arrive here. These self important dorks could memorize and pass the tests to get their MBA's, but didn't have the smarts to run a snow cone stand at a profit. As it says in the Tao of Pooh, "Cleverness does not equate to wisdom." Robert H. Baucom - The Cynical Curmudgeon ***************** on 12/29/04 9:20 PM, Bolton Peck at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > But as usual Amiga have inept management stateside, and there's a bitter > feud between Amiga and its workalike competion, MorphOS, which is owned > by Genesi, and run on their Pegasos II platform. > > Spawned in the late 90s to run on Phase5 PowerPC accelerators for the > Amiga 3-4000 line, MorphOS grew because there was no official Amiga > migration path towards the much faster PowerPC CPU contained on the > Cyberstorm. Amigans wanted a PPC native OS, there was no Amiga company > able to give it to them. So, using the available RKM and other Amiga > reference manuals, as well as the knowledge of the AROS team, the > MorphOS crew back-hacked Amiga OS 2.0APIs and created a workalike OS > which ran Amiga 68k exes, as well as PPC native exes, seamlessly with a > lightning fast JIT based 68060 emulation, and their own custom > microkernel architecture. Amiga, Inc claimed stolen source code but > weren't apparently able to back their shit up in court, because the > threatened lawsuit never materialized. > > Initially available for the above mentioned Amigas, MorphOS had to be > reworked further to run on the Pegasos-because the original MorphOS made > use of ROM resources found in 'real' hardware Amigas, which of course > the Pegasos doesn't have. The Pegasos is a PowerPC, CHRP based > motherboard in micro-ATX form factor. It has built in USB1, firewire > 400, sound, SPDIF, 10/100, and in the case of the PegII, Gigabit > ethernet; AGP and 3 PCI slots as well as 'legacy' PC style PS/2, serial, > parallel and joystick ports. That's one busy little ATX connector > backplate!! > > The PegasosI and all AmigaONE computers are based on MAI logic's Articia > series of northbridges, the PegasosII is based on Marvell's DiscoveryII > chipset. Marvell's chipset is notably superior. Both systems use VIA > southbridges :-/ > > There is no valid technical reason why each OS couldn't or shouldn't be > allowed to run on the other party's system. IMHO each board sold should > be sold with a copy of MOS and Amiga OS 4. Minimal extra cost, no > piracy=everyone wins. But that makes sense, so it won't happen around > here anytime soon! > > Its the usual 'superior technology snatched from the jaws of victory by > inane management decisions' menagerie over here in Amiga land :-D > > Bolton -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
