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`12.Jul.2001` Merlancia Industries	Dave Haynie: CTO of Merlancia Industries Dave Haynie is the new CTO of Merlancia Industries. Dave Haynie might be well known by any Amiga user, cause he's a kind of living legend. The following is a brief summary of his career so far: Dave Haynie studied electronic engineering at the Carnegie Mellon University. After his studies four month of employment at General Electric he was hired by Commodore in September 1983 to support their "TED" project, which was started by Jack Tramiel. Later the C116 emerged from the "TED" project. While his times at Commodore Haynie decisively worked on many projects, like several 8 bit machines (e.g. C128), the Amigas A500, A2000, A2500, A3000, and A4000, Zorro-III, and he took part in the development of the AA and AAA chipsets, etc.. All in all he spent 11½ years at Commodore. 'Beside' of that he wrote about 50 articles for Amiga magazines of those times; Amiga Sentry, .Info, Amiga Transactor, Amazing Computing, Amiga World, etc.. Furthermore he wrote some developer tools and the FFS tool "DiskSalv". Some of his 'stations' at Commodore: 1983: Commodore "TED" project, low-cost VIC-20 replacement. 1984: Commodore 128 project, the sequel to the venerable Commodore 64.. 1986: Amiga 2000-B - slot-based Amiga. He designed the gate-array (Buster) and a "coprocessor interface" for the CPU slot. 1988: Amiga 2620/2630: 68020/30 CPU cards for the Amiga 2000. 1989: Amiga 3000: First fully 32-bit Amiga architecture. As a co-creator of the system, he designed the basic system architecture, the Zorro III expansion bus standard, and the "Buster" bus control gate array which implemented Zorro III. 1991: Amiga 3000+": initially a product oriented design, this coupled the new Amiga "AA" system/graphics chipset, an AT&T DSP3210 media coprocessor, 16-bit audio and modem CODECs, etc. Management changes canceled the project, though some of its "DNA" lived on the Amiga 4000 and 1200. He also developed basic modular "Acutiator" architecture for next-generation Amiga systems. 1992: Developed 32-bit SCSI controller for Amiga 4000, architecture for stand-alone DSP add-in cards, and prototype of "AAA" motherboard, for Commodore's 4th generation, 64-bit Amiga graphics system. System works, but by 1993, there's no money left to fix the four full-custom ASICs. 1994: Developed plug-in graphics subsystem for the Amiga. Commodore declares bankruptcy, this is never built. Haynie created a 2-hours video about the last day at Commodore and the goodbye-party, known by the name of "The Deathbed Vigil and Other Tales of Digital Angst". This video for example is as a bonus content of the "Amiga Forever" CD by Cloanto. After his times at Commodore Dave Haynie worked for the Scala Inc. company for a short time, where about 80% of the former Commodore engineers met, again. In November 1995 Amiga Technologies contracted him to consult for the PowerAmiga project. He developed a concept, but due to Escom's financial problems this project got canceled. After that, in May 1996, Haynie was contracted by the PIOS Computer AG, where he was in charge of the hardware. Shortly before founded by Stefan Domeyer PIOS engaged also other former Amiga Int. or Commodore employees, among them such clinking names like Dr. Peter Kittel and Andy Finkel. PIOS formed up to become a successful distributor of PowerPC hardware and to make the PowerAmiga dream reality - the term of "PiosONE" was born. Later from the PIOS Computer AG the Met@box AG emerged, a group of meanwhile six companies with among other things Settop boxes as part of their product line. Me@box made application for insolvency in May 2001. More stations on Haynie's way: 1999 - Fleecy Moss started the KOSH project to develop a new open source operating system for the Amiga - Dave Haynie is responsible for the hardware. systems and audio. 1999 - The "Phoenix Platform Consortium" to define the Amiga's future was founded - beside of Dave Haynie also Carl Sassenrath, RJ Mical, Wolf Dietrich (Phase 5), and Dan Dodge (QNX) were part of it. 2001 - In July Dave Haynie became CTO of Merlancia Industries. He contributed information for the "The International Technology And. Computing Historical Association" ITACHA, who collect 'artefacts' from technic and computer industry and make these information available online. Unfortunately at this time there is only one page about the "C65" available. Also a really rich source for Amiga devotees are the "The Dave Haynie Archives". Last but not least it might be to mention that he became known and dear to many of the Amiga community as a an unweary, all-time helpful co-worker/partner/friend. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Jul. 2001, 20:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jul.2001` amiga.org (ANF)	CNet: Psion leaving handheld business Psion, who were about to utilize the AmigaDE for future PDAs, will leave the handheld business. The reason might be that Psion do not have enough financial resources to compete with PalmOS or WinCE products. The share declined in price to it's all-time-low during the last weeks. But Psion is working on the Netbook. It is obscure to what extent these changes will affect the use of the AmigaDE. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Jul. 2001, 15:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Jul.2001` Golem IT-News (ANF)	Golem: Motorola at severe loss As to read at golem.de Motorola suffers from a crisis in the tele-communication market. The company drew sales of 7.5 millions USD in 1Q/01 which stands for a minus of 19% compared to last year's sales. Follow the title link for the Golem article (German). Edtor's note: Since at the moment every chip manufacturer in fact is in the same situation this seems to be more likely a normal evolution of market. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Jul. 2001, 15:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jul.2001` 3ivx	3ivx: Changing server Due to changes of server locations it might happen that the web- or mail-server of 3ivx is temporary not available. (mj) (Translation: mj) [News message: 08. Jul. 2001, 16:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Jul.2001` Heise Newsticker	Heise: Linux developers planning .NET as Open-Source According to reports on TechWeb and Wired the Linux company Ximian is about to announce an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET frameworks. Read the full article under the title link (German). There is an article (English) regarding this subject on ZDNet, too. (mj) (Translation: mj) [News message: 08. Jul. 2001, 16:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Jul.2001` Apple	Apple puts Power Mac G4 Cube on hold Apple Press information: Feldkirchen, Germany, 4. July 2001: Apple will put on hold the production of the Power Mac G4 Cube for an indefinitely time. Even though there is little chance to re-introduce this unique computer by an all around renewed model, there are currently not plans to do so. "Owners of a Cube love this computer, but most of the customers decided in favour of a Power Mac G4 mini-tower, instead", said Phil Schiller, vice president, worldwide product marketing, of Apple. The Power Mac G4 Cube, only 25% as big as a common PC, represented a completely new class of computers: the power of a super-computer in a 8-inch-cube hanging inside of a glassy casing. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 04. Jul. 2001, 19:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Jul.2001` Heise [Newsticker] / SOL-Invictus (ANF)	Heise: Cell phone manufacturers for 3G game standard To put developers of games and manufacturers of cell phones into the position to agree to a mutual and open standard for future 3G cell phones, some cell phone manufacturers have started the "Mobil Games Interoperability Forum". Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, and Siemens will discuss with game developers consolidated. See Heise's article (German) under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 04. Jul. 2001, 13:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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