Amiga
Inc and Elbox working together for Amiga OS 4.0 and
beyond
[11
April 2001, Snoqualmie, Washington, USA]
Amiga
Inc is pleased to announce a long-term relationship
with Elbox Computer Ltd of Krakow, Poland. Amiga Inc
announced the development of AmigaOS4, the latest version
of the high performance, user friendly operating system
that introduced multimedia to the world at the St Louis
trade and user show on the 31st March 2001. To support
AmigaOS4, Amiga Inc also released the Zico hardware
specification targeted at PowerPC processors. Elbox
Computer Ltd are working closely with Amiga Inc to ensure
that their existing and future products will gain Zico
certification, and thus provide a perfect platform for
AmigaOS4.
'St
Louis marked the beginning of the future.' said Bill
McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga Inc. 'Key to that
is the Amiga community moving forwards in a single direction,
united and determined. With Elbox as a partner, another
key Amiga company has joined the drive forwards towards
success.'
'Our
long-term commitment to computer technology is now giving
tangible results in the Amiga market,' said Maciek Binek,
CEO of Elbox. 'Now, with the Amiga Inc. initiative,
we can see a clear sign of future-oriented thinking
and strategy, a breakthrough for this computer. We hope
Amiga will soon again become the common word.'
'Elbox
have taken a major role in not just supporting the existing
Amiga market with their many products but also in providing
a path forwards.' said Fleecy Moss, CTO of Amiga Inc.
"Our relationship with them will ensure that their existing
customers can benefit from AmigaOS4 whilst new users
coming to the Amiga will have additional excellent choices
in the hardware that they can buy.'
AmigaOS4 is currently under development and will ship
in Summer 2001. Elbox products can already be purchased
from all major Amiga dealers, and their next new product,
the SharkPPC+ will be available along with the premiere
of the AmigaOS4 system.
About
Amiga:
Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing
and porting applications to a new multi-media operating
systems which is hardware agnostic. AmigaDE is a joint
development effort between the Tao Group of Reading
England, and Amiga Incorporated. AmigaDE based applications
can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM,
MIPS R3000, R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors.
The Amiga OS can run hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux,
Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4. Amiga is based
in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has
offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660
or visit Amiga on the web at http://www.amiga.com.
About
Elbox:
Elbox Computer Ltd of Krakow, Poland is a privately
held company that has been in business since 1982, and
has grown rapidly from its industrial systems roots,
now having a significant presence in peripherals, multimedia
systems, high performance motherboards, enclosures,
application software and general computer subsystems.
Its products are used throughout the world and set a
new standard in price, performance and customer satisfaction.
For further information, please send an email to info
(at) elbox.com or visit Elbox website at http://www.elbox.com.
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