From: "Stefan Burstrom" Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: WarpOS released !!! Date: 30 Sep 97 00:52:44 +0100 Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden Lines: 49 Message-ID: <2414.7212T52T2221@efd.lth.se> References: <3430f6b3.19740196@news.online.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: cif94sbu.student.lth.se NNTP-Posting-User: stefan X-Newsreader: THOR 2.5 Elysium (Amiga;TCP/IP) Path: 195.95.96.10!news.unisource.be!planetinternet.be!newsgate.unisource.nl!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!cosy.sbg.ac.at!newsfeed.de.ibm.net!ibm.net!Cabal.CESspool!bofh.vszbr.cz!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news.stupi.se!c-1996!news.lth.se!not-for-mail On 29-Sep-97 20:52:31 Espen Berntsen (nameless@yme.himolde.no) wrote: >Say what? A new bogged down hardware key to prevent other from making >things for the new hardware? Like M$ did for NT when they used >undocumented lib calls to make email programs (and thus preventing >others "from taking over the mail programs developed by M$ as well as >many other vendors". As long as software stay compatible anyone can do what they want. H&P's solution is neither compatible nor very efficient. >>vendors. All software which is supplied by phase 5, and in which we have >>invested lots of work and financial efforts to make the PowerUp a useful >>product, would be disabled once the Haage&Partner software is installed >>in the system. That includes for example the fast CyberGL native library >>as well as the MPEG video and audio decoding integrated into CGX V3. >So if it finds some H&P stuff you disable what you can? How nice. >Remind me of not getting the alleged A\Box. Why do you look at P5 as the devil? I don't find H&P any better at all, on the contrary...! >>Haage&Partner, instead, wants to establish their own "extended >>Hunk-format", which may is derived from the Amiga Hunk format, but still >>a new and proprietary solution. It is a concept that forces developers >>to use the only solution supporting this format - the Storm C compiler >>by Haage&Partner. Haage&Partner declares it's product being open and >>Amiga-compliant - in fact, it is only open to the Haage&Partner standard >>and compliant to their own software solutions. >And the PowerUp board is only compliant with P5 stuff. And the big >difference here is??? The difference is that the PowerUp software is based on industri standard, has remained compatible with the initial releases given out to developers. H&P's solution disables the PowerUp software and makes 100% compliant PowerUp software break. regards, Stefan Burstroem ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Irl: Stefan Burstroem << >> Omnipresence Intl. << >> Irc: Yabba << >> Phone: +46 (0)46-211 40 84 << >> EMail: stefan@omnipresence.com << ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ps. The expressed opionins above are not P5's nor Omnipresence Intl's. It is just my expressed opinion based on months of discussions with Phase5 about the PowerUp system and by looking at the StormC solution.