FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
CONTACT: Bill McEwen
Amiga Incorporated
Phone: (425) 396-5660
Fax: (425) 396-5671
E-mail: bill@amiga.com |
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Amiga Inc
and Elbox Working Together for Amiga OS 4.0 and
Beyond.
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April 11,
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. AmigaDE 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@elbox.com or visit Elbox
website at http://www.elbox.com/
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