During the trip that BeBug made to yT’s headquarters in Mannheim, they also had a talk with CEO Bernd Korz. They discussed marketing, future releases and much more.
During the trip that BeBug made to yT’s headquarters in Mannheim, they also had a talk with CEO Bernd Korz. They discussed marketing, future releases and much more.
There are some extremely interesting tidbits here!
For example the fact that Zeta R1 is outselling BeOS R5 (Though I assume they are talking per time-period, which is reasonable given that YellowTAB benefits from a userbase which waited to buy a new version).
I have no idea what ‘Zintro’ is though. Anyone?
More info on the Zintro:
http://www.zetanews.com/module.php?mod=node&id=197
It looks pretty interesting, thanks.
I guess it’s the demo CD
Is a computer running Zeta they announced an extremely long time ago, and which kinda vanished after that. It looked a bit like a Buffalo wireless router, from memory – extremely small tower.
That looks like suspiciously like a std miniITX board in a custom case but the backside doesn’t look right, and whats the KVM for? Still 690eu seems a bit steep given these boards can be had for <$200 but then small form factor gear is way overpriced in most places. At least if true, the miniITX runs Zeta atleast, never knew that for sure.
on 04/2/22 I must have missed this
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=6116
and
http://www.nimblev5.com/
It seems like a really sweet machine, but it has no cd/dvd drive
I -always- wanted to have BeOS running on a compact, VIA EPIA-based computer. And I also need a KVM switch. So this little gem is just what I need.
I would add a TV card to it, and perhaps an external DVD burner.
Now, if I could boot and run Zeta/BeOS from solid-state instead of a hard disk, that would be just great. Something like Ferromagnetic RAM should be fast enough and alows for unlimited writes.
I don’t expect to see Ferro DRAM any time soon, it looks like one of those next year things (forever). But I would hope that the USB Flash drives could get faster, much much faster, I think they are only at 2MBytes/s even with USB2 because the demand hasn’t been for speed, just size.
On the subject of nice, I also noticed that in the SFF arena there are now Athlon (Geode NX <10W, not the old NS Geode) and Pentium M miniITX boards popping up as well as a SFF IWIll dual Opteron but not exactly in the retail channel yet.
It will be interseting to see if a iMiniMac will run Zeta/BeOS/Haiku too. My biggest issue is getting any SFF machine to drive 2 monitors at >>1600 res.
I don’t expect to see Ferro DRAM any time soon, it looks like one of those next year things (forever).
First of all, I wasn’t talking about “Ferro DRAM” whatever that is. Ferromagnetic RAM is certainly not dynamic – it doesn’t need any refresh by definition. So, perhaps you’re talking about a different product.
This is what I have been talking about:
http://www.ramtron.com/doc/Products/overview.asp
I have a 256 Kbit FRAM on my shelf – I have had it for about a year now, and have been using it in some of my designs. My IC belongs to a batch that has a 10E8 rewrite cycles. Ramtron has now upped the number of rewrite cycles to infinite, for the same IC.
For a comparison, Flash RAM whitstands up to 10E5 rewrites at best. Worse yet, the writes are sectorized: you can’t write just one bit, you have to rewrite a whole cell/sector (can be several K). Flash RAM is very bad for writes, and hence, I guess, has not found large acceptance for non-embedded OSes.
It will be interseting to see if a iMiniMac will run Zeta/BeOS/Haiku too.
Do you mean the PPC version of these OSes? I don’t know if there’s a PPC version of Zeta, I suspect there isn’t. Yet.
MiniMac is too new for BeOS r5 PPC version, and the others haven’t been ported yet and probably will not be ported for a long time (nor is Haiku finished at all).
But we can keep on dreaming