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Genesi Introduces Dedicated MorphOS PCs

Posted by timothy on from the and-a-handy-defrost-setting dept.

Velcro_SP writes "When was the last time a company had the nerve to attempt a worldwide introduction of an all-new desktop computer with dedicated OS? Genesi has been demonstrating prototypes all around Europe, most recently in Poland, in the USA, and is even making noise about Moscow. Throwing all caution to the wind they are moving past beta stage, announcing the consumer release scheduled to occur at an Aachen, Germany convention on December 7th and 8th. The Pegasos is a PPC processor-based computer designed and manufactured in Europe. It runs MorphOS, a PPC OS based on the Quark microkernel."

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  1. Excuse My Ignorance, But... by occamboy · · Score: 2, Insightful
    What does this system do that:
    • Can't be done as well or better already, AND
    • That a large number of people want, or could be induced to want?
    i.e., what is the selling proposition here?
  2. Re:What is it with the Germans? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    How the fucking hell is the parent comment funny? I find that incredibly offensive.

  3. When? by mbogosian · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When was the last time a company had the nerve to attempt a worldwide introduction of an all-new desktop computer with dedicated OS?

    1997: Be, Inc.

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  4. Re:Who's going to buy these things? by downix · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Initial market, of course, is to developers. Notice it's placement at CeBIT (heavily developer-oriented show) and other developer shows. The price is low enough to convince many shadetree coders to take a look into the system, especially those that remember the ease of coding on the Amiga. Lock in a core of developers, you get apps. Once you get apps, then you can attract joe-schmo users. Till then, the best bet is to attract the "way cool" buying folks and developers.

    Then look at the other boards they have coming. Eclipsis, a PDA-scaled board... how many PDA's do you know that run the same OS as your desktop? Makes developing for them super-easy. And sharing software and data would also be easy... great USP for businesses and software makers.

    MorphOS API's are designed around a distributed setup, message-passing similar to QNX. It would also be simple to make MorphOS-based supercomputers, something many developers will not ignore for long.

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  5. Re:Foolishness by lexus99 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How often do we have to learn this lesson? Small proprietary OSs are doomed propositions, especially when tied to a hardware architecture. Every few years we go through this again. Lisp machines, Amiga, OS/2, BeOS, etc. and on and on.

    You have these choices in PC operating systems: Windows, Mac and the free OSs. And there's no guarantees on the Mac either.

    Ok, granted you admit the Mac may be doomed, but look what you just said. This is no different than the Mac. In fact, the Mac is a perfect example of an OS being tied to the hardware.

    Please show me the difference(s) here between what Apple is doing and what this company is doing.

    What would really help them out here to make MorphOS run on multiple hardware designs, like x86 for example