ASUS was founded in 1989 in Taipei, Taiwan — the founders had worked as computer engineers for Acer. The name ASUS originated from Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology. The first three letters of the word were dropped to give the final name a high position in alphabetical listings. In 2008, ASUS restructured its operation and Pegatron was formed to manage motherboard and component OEM manufacturing. At CES 2009, Pegatron and Freescale presented a netbook based on the i.MX515 SoC.
We put an old Pegasos logo on the netbook for old time's sake.
Our Pegasos (deutsche Schreibweise) was introduced in 2002 and sold until 2006 (Coffee, Tea or PegasosPPC). With the AmigaOS 4.1 release, old Pegasos boards are selling for 450 Euros. Did you know the name was inspired by the statue on top of the Alte Oper Frankfurt?
Last year, we created an ARM9 Starter Kit for Toshiba (One ARM is Better Than None). We continue to provide a GNU/Linux BSP (TMPA910 Starter Kit Linux Support). That is the board with display pictured above on the left.
We have some great things planned for the i.MX515 and look forward to working with Pegatron. The i.MX515 Developer Program is now open, so please register and get involved. The Evolution continues!
The Community is the Computer - a Super Computer. Go Zig!
6 comments:
I love old pegasos logo .
Good old times :)
We need more good news
Jerzy Guc
pegasus, asus, pegatron, pegasos, whatever...
If Genesi can bring affordable hardware to the market with a host of developers/supporters ready for the future, then there is significant change on the way. I am a Biologist. You are forcing morphological (OK, I like MorphOS 2.2) Evolution. We need a platform that creates accelerated and dramatic evolutionary changes in the 'corporate species' isolated in the ITC industries and in their own business models. With this pressure, it will be known if the rate of evolution is accelerated in not only Freescale, but Dell, HP, Acer and all the others that have relative importance to the overall market (dare I say Apple?!).
Go for it!
Regards,
Genji
I'd love to see Blackberry apps running on that net netbook..
I'd love to see Amiga apps running on that netbook.
Well, I wish, if I could use openSUSE on that netbook! Better netbook support is one of the primary targets of openSUSE 11.2, just ARM support is in pretty early stages. But we have eight months till the next release :)
pegasus, asus, pegatron, pegasos, whatever...
If Genesi can bring affordable hardware to the market with a host of developers/supporters ready for the future, then there is significant change on the way. I am a Biologist. You are forcing morphological (OK, I like MorphOS 2.2) Evolution. We need a platform that creates accelerated and dramatic evolutionary changes in the 'corporate species' isolated in the ITC industries and in their own business models. With this pressure, it will be known if the rate of evolution is accelerated in not only Freescale, but Dell, HP, Acer and all the others that have relative importance to the overall market (dare I say Apple?!).
Regards,
Genji
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