The Doctor (+1.0)
2/6/04 6:11PM |
Interesting how they sell the board alone for more or less the price of an Iyonix. |
dgs (+1.0)
2/6/04 8:41PM |
TheDoctor: Maybe MicroDigital could buy some, port RISC OS to it, call it a "soft computer", and sell the end result for far more than the Iyonix?
Of course, they won't need to do that, since they'll be shipping ARMtwister(tm) systems by August 2004. Right? 
It looks like an Iyonix motherboard, it smells like an Iyonix motherboard, you can buy it without RISC OS or support for RISC OS for almost the same price as a complete Iyonix plus peripherals.
Maybe Castle's shareholders will demand that Castle ask 2500ukp for complete Iyonix systems in future, now that this has got out.
Oddly enough, I set up a SUNW Opteron system with Red Hat Linux installed, this week. Won't last long though...
dgs |
Revin Kevin (+1.0)
2/6/04 9:06PM |
Nice to see new areas with RISC OS in use. |
The Doctor (-1.0)
2/6/04 9:09PM |
Well, I think that covers all eventualities 
:TheDoctor: |
epistaxsis@work (+1.0)
2/6/04 9:24PM |
groovy 
is this the magic 50000 project?
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imj (+1.0)
2/6/04 9:40PM |
Hoho. You think ADI will sell 50000 devkits? |
dgs (-1.0)
2/6/04 10:27PM |
In reply to imj:
I'm sure they'll ask you for market research background, if they do.
Just like John Kortink, you seem to be an expert!
dgs |
jjvdgeer (+1.0)
2/6/04 10:32PM |
So what kind of people are buying this kind of mobos? Is it a (potentially) big market? |
Revin Kevin (+1.0)
2/6/04 10:37PM |
It is a different market to the normal RISC OS end market.
Let's hope the manufactures get lots of different markets.
p.s Well doen Drobe for finding the info in the first place. |
nunfetishist (+1.0)
2/6/04 11:06PM |
50,000 units is quite a lot for a development board, actually. Many more than most companies could ever hope to sell, at least of a single model. If they could, they wouldn't be so damned expensive. What bulks did Castle make Iyonix boards in originally? Very small, I imagine, partially explaining the high price. Let's hope if the 50,000 unit thing does happen, the benefits will trickle through to the normal RISC OS people in the form of much cheaper machines. |
bernie (+1.0)
2/6/04 11:22PM |
In reply to dgs:
" It looks like an Iyonix motherboard, it smells like an Iyonix motherboard, you can buy it without RISC OS or support
for RISC OS for almost the same price as a complete Iyonix plus peripherals"
AFAIK, ADI sells it with RISC OS in flash AND linux on hard disc/6 CDROM distro:
" Software
• RISC OS operating system (in Flash)
• Debian Linux operating system (on hard drive)
• RISC OS C/C++ development suite
• Linux distribution set (6 CDs)"
Sorry for the lame quoting, but I still don't understand quoting in Drobe. |
Sawadee (+0.9)
2/6/04 11:41PM |
Did Castle not tell us the who (ADI Engineering??) the 50,000 were? Or is Korea the resource supplier of our Iyonixs. :laugh: Thanks to Castle for the fact that we have got lucky cheap Iyonix?
Not too long ago wasn't it ROMs found in the Middle East, now "80321 Tungstenboards" in Korea - Wow, RISC OS really is world wide! I think it's just pleasing to hear that bits and pieces of our platform is readily and still available :grin:
Cheers, Steve. |
dgs (+1.0)
3/6/04 1:15AM |
In reply to bernie:
So how does their support for RISC OS users work?
dgs |
bernie (+1.0)
3/6/04 10:12AM |
AFAIK (and as stated in their site) they don't give/sell support for RO. My post was intended to reply to first part of statement, i.e. ADI sells mobo with RO (and C/C++ suite!!). |
helpful (+1.0)
3/6/04 3:13PM |
At the last ROUGOL meeting Castle (Jack) said that the big order was "at least 50000", and could go up to 250000. However he also said it was NOT using Iyonix motherboards, so don't get your hopes up for them suddenly becoming cheap  |
Sawadee
4/6/04 1:01AM |
Iyonix motherboards or not, still great to see Castle do well in business even if it is't Iyonix/RISCOS related. Besides, isn't our market still too small for Castle to depend on us? At the end of the day, surely we are to benefit something good from any of Castles success? |
lostamarble
4/6/04 8:43AM |
nice. so by how much did the iyonix miss out on 64bit pciX? can development of hardware support for the adi board filter back to RISC OS driver development? perhaps a RISC OS powered server class machine might be an option if true arm technology powered laptops remain a dream |
epistaxsis@work
4/6/04 5:43PM |
In reply to lostamarble:
PCI-x "extensions" are part of the Xscale I think - our chip is a lot more than just a CPU!
There is much on the motherboard that is, as yet, not implemented on RISC OS.
MIDI, SPDIF and IrDA for starters |
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