andrew@kean.mun.ca (08/11/89)
Hmm. A couple of questions. One thing that I could never figure out was why the Amiga 2080 was never promoted. Ficker free? You bet! So I bought one. Silly me. It turns out that there is a "small" technical difficulty with the box... it runs as hot as the devil, and after a critical temperature, I loose the ability to interlace. Somewhat silly, Hmm? A flicker free monitor that can't be used in interlace. My local dealer has said that as soon as Commodore finds out how to economically fix this, they will... free of charge. BUT I WANT IT NOW!!!!!! I _did_ pay $700 for the damn thing. So, questions. 1) what is the progress on the fix? and 2) why not simply stick a small brushless _quiet_ fan on one of the grills? I'm told that this is a purely heat reated problem, and can't even be reproduced without the cover on. I suppose I _could_ buy a fan myself, but something tells me that I should be getting one for free. Pleas reply by email as I am around 800 messages behind in .amiga & .amiga.tech. Thanks, -Andrew. <andrew@kean.mun.ca>
lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (10/20/90)
In <6839@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >Well, I seem to recall an AmigaOS implementation being hung up on some sort >of licensing issues. How does that fit in with the "Open" bit? I am not sure of the details of the Ameristar port, and why it was hung up, but I can tell you that Sun did not charge any sort of fee whatsoever for implementations of NeWS that were completely developed from the spec. The only charges made for an implementation would have been levied if the Sun source code itself were used, and the charges would have been for a NeWS source license. This, to me, seems reasonable, and is similar to what you might expect from a shareware package (1 price for the executables, additional for the binary, and no charge for writing a clone of it). 'Open' doesn't necessarily mean that you give away your work. -larry -- It is not possible to both understand and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) (10/20/90)
Well, I seem to recall an AmigaOS implementation being hung up on some sort of licensing issues. How does that fit in with the "Open" bit? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
rick@ameristar (Rick Spanbauer) (10/20/90)
In article <6839@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >Well, I seem to recall an AmigaOS implementation being hung up on some sort >of licensing issues. How does that fit in with the "Open" bit? >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' ><peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>. We had a working version of NeWS running on the Amiga shortly after Sun released NeWS (ie pre NeWS 1.1 days). Our port was an engineering prototype; it was never released as a product. Rick Spanbauer Ameristar