TOS computer based on G4? (08.07.2001 - 04:10 Uhr)

The American company Merlancia Industries is planning to release a new TOS machine based on the PowerPC G4. As Ryan Czerwinski confirmed to us in a telephone conversation today, the MMC Tsunami is based on the G4 board from the German company bplan. The CPU is interchangeable. Among others, the Motorola G4/7410 and the G4/7450 can be used.
The "Tsunami" is the first model of a complete series of multimedia hardware, which will include PDAs. The operating systems AmigaOS, AmigaDE, Linux, QNX and maybe also BeOS are supposed to be executable. Merlancia also recently sought contact with the owner of the rights to the Atari operating system TOS via a public mail in the newsgroup "comp.sys.atari.st" in order to make it run on the Tsunami. In the meantime, Milan Computers confirmed that they, as the owner of the TOS rights, had contacted the Americans and were basically interested in a cooperation, provided Merlancia could present an interesting and serious concept.
The bplan board on which the Tsunami is based is convincing with its modern components such as PCI and AGP interfaces, USB and FireWire ports, and so on. Members of the editorial staff of our sister magazine AmigaPLUS were able to convince themselves of the board's ability to run (under Linux) on site. Further key data can be found on the website of bplan.
TOS compatibility is to be ensured by a 68k emulation (MorphOS).
A first interview with Ryan Czerwinski can be found in the upcoming st-computer. (tr)

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